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Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites them to offer compassionate care throughout the family's experience with the death, including the months and years following. The chapters include information...
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Kay Simmons died five months after she and the author celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The last five years of their life together were spent in the shadow of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare degenerative brain disease. This book chronicles their journey together with the disease from earliest symptoms to diagnosis to life with the disease to loss and grief. It should be required reading for anyone confronting the disease, medical...
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Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But, fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving.
In this comprehensive book, bestselling author Ann Kaiser Stearns explores the practical and personal challenges of both caregiving and successful aging. She couples findings from the latest research with powerful insights and problem-solving tips to help...
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Early in the pandemic, medical personnel were our front lines. What was that like? Through stories, art, and poetry, Canadian health-care workers from across the country recount their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors to The COVID Journals share the determination and fear they felt as they watched the crisis unfold, giving us an inside view of their lives at a time when care itself was redefined from moment to moment. Their narratives,...
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One of the sad truths of aging is that people gradually become unable to do the things they once could. Eventually, it gets to the point where relocation may be necessary. However, with the large variety of options and the different levels of care and services available to seniors, it can be difficult to determine what the best choice is.
In Silver Strides: What You and Your Family Need to Know about Selecting a Senior Community, Dr. Barbara Norvell...
86) The Essentials- Golden Rule Healthcare: The Ultimate Guide to Enhancing Exceptional Inpatient Quali
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In 'THE ESSENTIALS: Golden Rule Healthcare,' embark on a transformative journey into the heart of patient-centered care. With a blend of wisdom drawn from seasoned professionals and personal insights, this guide illuminates the path to delivering exceptional inpatient quality care. Discover practical strategies and timeless principles rooted in empathy, compassion, and respect, all encapsulated within,The Golden Rule of Healthcare. Whether you're...
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Might your caregiving be easier? It's a lot just to keep your balance. Shift to healthier more resilient and less stressful ways of caregiving with these bite-sized, wise and funny gifts. They are friendly, concise and even a bit humorous, (because you have enough serious in your life...). This lived wisdom offers friendly and practical ways to keep your internal balance while building more resilience, not less, more vitality and renewal.
A Hospice...
88) Gray Matter: Why You Must Safeguard Your Aged Relatives So That They Can Live Happily After Retired
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Safeguarding the aged is such an important concept - a gray matter. An entire life's career spent working in a nursing care home, or residential care home, may not be enough to guarantee an error-free, litigation-free caregiving. Besides, we all desire to grow old. Hence, we may at some period in our lives need help with assisted living. Therefore, this book is for you who need to refresh your mind about caring for your aged relatives - nay, about...
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A Promise Kept is a memoir of a caregiver's experiences learned on-the-job with direction from God's promises to guide, direct and encourage her as she fulfilled a promise to her mother to care for her at home if she became unable to care for herself.
Along with support from family, friends, and professionals, caregivers daily need spiritual inspiration for strength and wisdom, guidance, and finding peace, love, and joy in the role of caring for...
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Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disease characterized primarily by cognitive deficiencies and problems with muscle movements and tremors; more than a half a million Americans have the disease and the current numbers are expected to increase over the next few years. Understanding Parkinson's Disease offers patients and their caregivers the kind of cutting-edge information that will allow them to successfully confront this debilitating...
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Care for yourself while caring for a loved one with diabetes
Taking care of someone with diabetes can be tiring and emotionally draining at times. As a caregiver, you may overlook your own health and well-being because you're so focused on your loved one. This book helps empower you to be an attentive caregiver for your friend or family member with diabetes-while also taking good care of yourself.
Give your loved one the support they need with...
92) Surviving Mother
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Just as Deb and her mother Estelle are learning how to mesh their individual lives together, nature's destructive hand comes down, leaving them to wait for a new hope, and help from unexpected others.
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From the moment it was first proposed, the role of the nurse practitioner has been steeped in controversy. In the fields of both nursing and medicine, the idea that a nurse practitioner can, to some degree, serve as a replacement for the physician has sparked heated debates. Perhaps for that reason, despite the progress of the nurse practitioner movement, NPs have been reluctant to speak about themselves and their work, and their own vision of their...
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Caregiving is a journey of compassion, walking alongside someone coping with illness or disability or the effects of aging. Even though it's one of the most important jobs anyone can ever do, caregiving often takes a surprising toll on the caregiver's body, mind, and spirit. If you're a caregiver feeling confused, overwhelmed, or stressed out to the point of burnout or bailout, you're not alone. Many caregivers experience grief, anxiety, guilt, and...
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Possibilities with Parkinson's offer a fresh look on how to live better with this challenging disease. Easy to read, filled with useful tips and insights, and grounded in both science and practical application. Here is what readers have said:
"You eloquently and precisely describe my personal situation. Again, thank you for putting into words the things I've been feeling for a long time." F.B.
"Thank you for the honesty and vulnerability....
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Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.
Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began...
Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began...
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When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. My Parent's Keeper ...
· Uses the latest research and draws on case histories and interviews.
· Is a resource as well as a source of inspiration, with a blend of powerful stories and practical advice.
· Helps caregivers cope with numerous...
98) The Nurse's Reality Behind the Curtain: Enduring Words and Laughter to Empower, Inspire, and Grow
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THE BOOK, THE NURSE'S REALITY BEHIND THE CURTAIN: ENDURING WORDS AND LAUGHTER TO EMPOWER, INSPIRE AND GROW, is about situations that nurses encounter everyday on their day to day working environment. It details discussions on how nurses can develop compassion fatigue in the course of care giving. The steps to using self care to combat this fatigue is detailed. There are nurse related cartoons that only a nurse can relate and will bring on a smile...
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A New Creative Non-Drug Approach to Coping with Dementia
As exciting discoveries continue for Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias, hope for a cure remains. In the meantime, day to day challenges continue for many families and caregivers.
Karen Tyrell offers her expertise to provide new insights on how to manage disruptive behaviours associated with dementia such as anxiety, aggression, and wandering. Her book delivers tools and...
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In a world where human disconnection is so prevalent, Prognosis HOPE restores humanity to healthcare and brings hope back to both caregivers and care-seekers.
Patients don't always get the care they deserve and it's time for both caregivers and care-seekers to stand up and demand that change. Before becoming a registered nurse, Angie Felts was hit by a drunk driver. She sustained a traumatic brain injury that put her life on hold for nearly twenty...
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