Download or read book A Survival Guide for Family Caregivers written by Jo Horne and published by Compcare Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering strength, support, and sources of help, here is a compassionate, common-sense guide for the growing numbers of adults--spouses, children, and others--who must care for an older or chronically ill person.
Download or read book The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers written by Barry J. Jacobs and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that way. Empathic guidance from an expert who's been there can help. Through an account of two sisters and their ailing mother--interwoven with no-nonsense advice--The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers helps family members navigate tough decisions and make the most of their time together as they care for an aging parent. The author urges readers to be honest about the level of commitment they're able to make and emphasizes the need for clear communication within the family. While acknowledging their guilt, stress, and fatigue, he helps caregivers reaffirm emotional connections worn thin by the routine of daily care. This compassionate book will help families everywhere avoid burnout and preserve bonds during one of life's most difficult passages.
Download or read book The Caregiver s Survival Guide for Family Members written by Dave Coe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family Caregiver's Survival Guide is an essential reference book for anyone undertaking the long-term care of a loved one. For over twenty years the author has been engaged in the day to day care of four separate and distinct family members, and in his attempt to help others in similar situations, this book is the result. It is not all sweetness and light in its telling, and deals frankly with the type of realities few will discuss. Even if you believe that God granted you the gift of becoming a caregiver, that doesn't mean that you will either enjoy every minute of the job or just naturally know how to be one. The first book describes a detailed personal journey for the author through the myriad day to day to week to year to..., activities involved in such care, along with tips and tidbits on how to both accomplish this sometimes rewarding, sometimes not, job, and how to stay sane in the process. As is true for all, while his experiences are often unique to his caregiving situation, many of them also share a great deal of commonality for all to benefit from. The second book concerns a state by state reference section on anything and everything available to the family caregiving situation. Organized under individual state headings, this section is an invaluable treasure trove of what might be found in the reader's state and sometimes municipality to assist both the caregiver and care-given in their long and healthy mutual lifestyles.
Download or read book Caregiver s Survival Guide written by Ellie Crowe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caregiver's Survival Guide is based on Dr. Robert Yonover's personal experiences. While struggling to become a successful scientist and inventor, he also was primary caregiver for his paralyzed wife for more than twenty years and raised their two children. Yonover takes you into the throes of his life as a caregiver, husband, and father, offering guidance and hope through his story. He provides advice on: Dealing with heavy news Handling day-to-day challenges Holding on to the foundation of your relationship Taking stock of finances Adapting and enjoying life Staying sane Maintaining a social life Fighting for your rights Through Caregiver's Survival Guide, Dr. Yonover will equip other caregivers who face similar physical, mental, social, and financial challenges with tips and guidelines from his own experiences and other experts to help make their situation survivable.
Download or read book A Caregiver s Survival Guide written by Kay Marshall Strom and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs are often neglected. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experience and compassion to this important topic. She shows you how to find spiritual support maintain balanced relationships decide when caregiving at home is no longer possible work out your financial situation understand the impact of long-term caregiving on the whole family deal with your personal losses Whether you are caring for an elderly parent, a spouse, an adult child or another family member or close friend, Strom's stories drawn from her own and othes' experiences will encourage and comfort you. And her practical ideas for how to meet your own needs for energy, patience, strength, wisdom, peace and creativity will carry you through many difficult days.
Download or read book The Caregiver s Survival Handbook written by Alexis Abramson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a caregiver can be rewarding but demanding work-and more than 40 million adult children find themselves experiencing the double duty of caring for their elders as they try to carry on a life of their own. The mission of this book is to help caregivers figure out how to look after aging loved ones, provide for other family members, and attend to their own career-without losing themselves in the process.
Download or read book The Caregiver s Survival Handbook written by Alexis Abramson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical handbook for women confronting the problems of caring for an aging parent explains how to deal with the changing parent/child roles, foster aging parents' independence, get help from other family members, find time for oneself, and balance work, family, and caregiving responsibilities. Original.
Download or read book From a Caring Friend written by Denise M. Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best resource for a family caregiver is another family caregiver. And, the best resource for a new family caregiver is a seasoned family caregiver who knows what works and what doesn't. In "A Caregiving Survival Guide," you share your best suggestions, tips and resources with a friend, colleague or family member who is new to a caregiving role. You pass along your wisdom, your lessons learned and your best solutions to help a friend caring for a family member with a chronic illness. With this book, you can share your advice through your written word, through photos, through printed pages you paste onto the guide's blank pages. You can create a journal, a scrap book, a detailed record. The simple book gives your wisdom center stage. The guide prompts you to share your suggestions for your friend about: --Activity ideas --Advocating --Taking breaks --Finding comfort --Working with family --Understanding forgiveness --Getting help --Managing hospitalizations --Organizing paperwork and schedules --Providing personal care --Asking the best questions --Stocking the right supplies You'll also share inspirations, resources and wishes to help keep your friend going. With the information you share in "A Caregiving Survival Guide," your friend will be armed to manage whatever comes in a caregiving day. "A Caregiving Survival Guide" is a great gift for anyone-a friend, support group member or colleague-just beginning a caregiving journey. Your thoughtfulness will start their caregiving journey on the right foot.
Download or read book Family Members Survival Guide written by Karl Pillemer and published by Delmar Pub. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family Member's Survival Guide includes short chapters on welcoming the new resident, keeping an eye on nutrition, dealing with dementia, and more. It includes 10 copies of the survival guide and is designed to distribute widely to residents' families. These booklets can be a significant step and will ease the natural anxieties of families and other loved ones, reassure family members about the care their loved one is receiving, and improve relations between families and staff.
Download or read book The Family Caregiver written by Stephanie Kennan and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a healthcare expert and family caregiver, Stephanie A. Kennan's The Family Caregiver is a comprehensive guide to eldercare, long-term care, financial planning, setting boundaries with parents, and the stress of caregiving.
Download or read book The Family Caregiver s Survival Guide Reference Section written by Dave Coe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family Caregiver's Survival Guide is an essential reference book for anyone undertaking the long-term care of a loved one. For over twenty years the author has been engaged in the day to day care of four separate and distinct family members, and in his attempt to help others in similar situations, this book is the result. It is not all sweetness and light in its telling, and deals frankly with the type of realities few will discuss. Even if you believe that God granted you the gift of becoming a caregiver, that doesn't mean that you will either enjoy every minute of the job or just naturally know how to be one. The first book describes a detailed personal journey for the author through the myriad day to day to week to year to..., activities involved in such care, along with tips and tidbits on how to both accomplish this sometimes rewarding, sometimes not, job, and how to stay sane in the process. As is true for all, while his experiences are often unique to his caregiving situation, many of them also share a great deal of commonality for all to benefit from. The second book concerns a state by state reference section on anything and everything available to the family caregiving situation. Organized under individual state headings, this section is an invaluable treasure trove of what might be found in the reader's state and sometimes municipality to assist both the caregiver and care-given in their long and healthy mutual lifestyles. This book has deliberately been priced at the Kindle minimum in order to be available to the widest possible audience. The Family Caregiver's survival Guide. Essential state resource+ personal guide-2 sides of caregiving. Not Pollyannaish, real people/family CG. Also on Kindle, $.99
Download or read book Complete Elder Care Survival Guide written by Margaret Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have been searching for tangible guidance through caregiving difficulties, this workbook may provide some help. The workbook is designed for all types of caregivers, such as Alzheimer's/Dementia, single parents, grand-children helping grandparents, parents dealing with adult children, long-distance caregivers, hospice caregivers, caregivers of ill family members, etc. This is a workbook. It is interactive. To obtain the greatest benefit, you fill out the questionnaires with your person needing assistance. Hopefully, by the time you have finished, you will be calmer about the changing stages of life, and more hopeful about your particular part. Please imagine what your loved one will also feel because you have taken the time to ask and be present in their life."
Download or read book A Caregiving Survival Guide written by From A Caring Friend and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Caregiving Survival Guide, you share your best suggestions, tips and resources with a new family caregiver. You pass along your wisdom, your lessons learned and your best solutions to help a friend caring for a family member with a chronic illness. With the information you share in A Caregiving Survival Guide, your friend will be armed to manage whatever comes in a caregiving day. A Caregiving Survival Guide is a great gift for anyone--a friend, support group member or colleague--just beginning a caregiving journey. Your thoughtfulness will start their caregiving journey on the right foot.
Download or read book Coping with Alzheimer s written by Rose Oliver Ph. D and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You, the caregiver, finds yourself in a situation that threatens to overwhelm you with a welter of conflicting emotions and to undermine your ability to come. You feel that way sometimes.
Download or read book The Caregiver s Survival Guide written by Joan Swirsky and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to do the right thing for your child, spouse, partner and parents without getting depressed, giving up, or going insane.
Download or read book The Caregivers Survival And Empowerment Guide Home Health Behavioral Health Model Of Caregiving written by Rev. Dr. Geraldine Carter and published by The Door 2 Success Publishing . This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caregivers Are Just Superheroes In Comfortable Clothes." Taking care of an elderly individual whether that person is a parent, relative, friend or simply someone in your community who needs support makes you a caregiver. Caregivers are needed now, more than ever with the rapidly increasing numbers of senior citizens who want to continue to live in their homes and communities but, in order to do so they need assistance with daily living activities. The elderly require a variety of services that may be provided in the home environment. Individuals considering caring for an elderly person in the home or community setting need to have information and knowledge to determine whether or not they are capable of providing care for the elderly while also staying healthy themselves. These training of trainers materials are specifically designed for helping inform and prepare potential and current caregivers with understanding and facing the day-to-day challenges of caring for an elder, creating safe home environments, dealing with specialized behavior problems or issues that may be caused by illness or medications, as well as how to care for themselves. Heres Only A Few Topics We’ll Explore: -When To Take a Seniors Car Keys -Dealing With Alzheimers -Stages of Alzheimer’s -Caring For The Caregiver -Taking Care of Yourself -Recognizing and Preventing Senior Abuse -Hospice -Understanding Grief And Much More……
Download or read book The Elder Care Survival Guide written by Martin R. Sabel and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELDER CARE JUST GOT EASIER ... Get better care for your aging elder, reduce your stress and live a more balanced life. Here is your complete "essential insider's reference" that guides you through the often unfriendly and challenging waters known as eldercare. You'll refer to it again and again. You will discover simple steps that: * Get the help you need when you need it * Quickly locate money to pay for care * Melt your elder's resistance to getting help * Build a personal support network ready and willing to help * Handle the inevitable conflicts with family members * Create and maintain a balanced life as a caregiver * Access valuable government benefits to reduce caregiving's financial burden
