Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Download or read book The Caregiving Trap written by Pamela D. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Caregiving Trap" combines the authentic life and professional experience of Pamela D. Wilson, who provides recommendations for overwhelmed and frustrated caregivers who themselves may one day need care. "The Caregiving Trap" includes stories about Pamela's actual personal and professional experience along with end of chapter exercises to support caregivers. Common caregiving issues include: A sense of duty and obligation to provide care that damages family relationships Emotional and financial challenges resulting in denial of care needs Ignorance of predictive events that result in situations of crises or harm Delayed decision making and lack of planning resulting in limited choices Minimum standards of care supporting the need for advocacy

Download or read book Caregiving Insights written by Lise LeBlanc and published by Next Chapter Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caregiving can be lonely, no matter what stage you're at. Millions of people worldwide struggle with caring for loved ones while still trying to care for themselves. You don't need to learn about caregiving all on your own. In Caregiving Insights, author Lise Leblanc has compiled brief stories and lessons from experts in the field and people just like you who have been caregivers themselves.Focusing on what other caregivers have learned, from setting boundaries and self care to being vulnerable and taking time to listen, the short stories in Caregiving Insights offer gentle advice from a trusted friend who has been there. Each story shines a light on just one facet of the process, so you can return to this book when your story begins to coincide. You will learn how to look back at happier times and record them for the future, how to manage guilt and grief, how to share caregiving responsibilities with dignity, and more through these heartwarming, informative, and powerful stories.Caregiving Insights is the ideal companion to other books in the "Wish I Knew" series.

Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Download or read book A Caregiver s Guide written by Mary a Johnson Ph D and published by Mary A. Johnson, PH.D.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has not only studied aging, but has managed assisted living communities, as well as experienced the caregiving role for family members. Her academic background and professional experience coupled with her personal experience in caregiving make this book valuable for both professional caregivers and family members providing care for a loved one. Caregiving can be stressful, and often is; however, with the information in this book, caregiving can be more enjoyable for both caregiver and patient. Chapters describe the many losses a patient may have experienced, and how the losses may affect the attitude and behavior of the patient. Suggestions for providing care -- physical, mental, and emotional -- are plentiful, with activities that can be fun for both the caregiver and the patient. There are also chapters on dementia, including Alzheimer's disease; coping with the stress of caregiving; caring for a patient during the dying process; and an extensive reading list of other sources of information that may be helpful.

Download or read book Caregiving Across the Lifespan written by Ronda C. Talley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scholars do not consider the long-term nature of caregiving, but rather focus on a specific developmental period (e.g., old age) or a specific disability (e.g., cancer). Yet the most important lessons about caregiving may occur at any age, regardless of disabilities or other limitations. Caregiving is a lifelong process. It begins in a mother’s womb, continues throughout the lifespan, and ends after death. Caregiving Across the Lifespan emphasizes caregiving as a process that occurs throughout one’s life. It discusses infant care, the developmental needs of children and adolescents, the many caregiving issues in adulthood and mid-life, and finally end-of-life care and bereavement. Key coverage includes: Examining caregiving issues across a developmental perspective. Caregiving from infancy through early childhood through end of life. Mid-life and multigenerational bonds and responsibilities. Caregiver identity in older adults. Family caregiving at the end of life. This must-have volume offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.

Download or read book Help I m a Caregiver written by Ernest M. Tegeder and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you recently become a caregiver, or perhaps are considering it as a profession? Or have you recently been one for a time and are experiencing the stress and anxiety that most often accompany it? Then you are in need of this book. Caregiving is a very stressful role and occupation for many reasons. This book will acquaint you with the many aspects involved and will frankly deal with the areas as well that are often embarrassing to discuss. It will offer help and guidance along with spiritual comfort to both caregiver and patient as both navigate these difficult waters. And it will offer practical suggestions to make this journey run smoother. By the time you finish the book, you will come to see that caregiving is a calling and that caregivers should be thanked and celebrated for being willing to fulfill this vital role. And celebrate and thank them we will, as well as thanking God for giving the strength and support to be one.

Download or read book Caring Insights written by Jodi Johnson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring Insights is an essential guide designed to empower family caregivers with reflective prompts, practical tools, and valuable skills. Structured around the 5Ws (Who, What, When, Where, Why) and How framework, provides clarity and direction for caregivers navigating the complexities of their role. With a focus on personal awareness and practical realities, Caring Insights offers daily mindfulness exercises, weekly reflection journaling, and monthly goal setting to help caregivers manage their responsibilities effectively and with confidence. Embrace caregiving without judgment, enhance your caregiving strategies, and improve the quality of care for everyone involved.

Download or read book We re Stronger than We Look written by Jill Brown and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caregiver, are you overwhelmed? Do you secretly (or not so secretly) have bouts of despair, bitterness, and even hopelessness? As a caregiver, you run the risk of disappearing. Your time goes overwhelmingly to the needs of your loved one. Relationships get strained, and challenges and anxieties are difficult to articulate. It’s easier to just keep your head down and do what must be done. What’s more, you probably didn’t sign up for this role or train for it. And yet here you are, reliving the trauma that got you here, providing support you didn’t know you had in you to give, struggling with fatigue, making critical, life-altering decisions, and yearning for the community you had that has changed or disappeared. As a caregiver, do you ever wonder: Where did everybody go? Why can’t I do a better job? Am I a complete failure? How can I keep up this level of care without exhausting myself? Rich in stories, threaded with humor, and unflinchingly real, We’re Stronger than We Look is a safe place for you to process the life you’ve been given, to accept that it’s okay not to have it all together, and to be inspired about your caregiving role—even while recognizing the need to take care of yourself as well.

Download or read book Insights into the Caregiver Perspective Involvement Well being and Interventions written by Shulamit Ramon and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range, duration, and intensity of informal caregiving across different illnesses and disabilities have increased in the 21st century due to an increase in longevity and de-institutionalization in most countries. Caregiving is demanding and hence can be stressful in terms of time, effort, and financial requirements, depending on the nature of the illness or disability, the relationships between the person in need of support and the caregiver, and the role played by available health and social care services. However, research evidence has demonstrated that it can be also rewarding, and enables a different type of bonding than was the case before caregiving became a necessity.

Download or read book Take Comfort written by Denise M. Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which words describe a caregiving role? Denise M. Brown takes 100 words–including the unlikely blizzard, kitchen and umbrella–and then turns each into a reflection. The reflections focus on a family caregiver's reality, sprinkled with hope.Denise's insights about the caregiving experience feel like a warm hug, a helpful smile and an encouraging nudge. "Take Comfort" will become your daily companion, offering support, understanding and acceptance.Readers say:“Isn't this BEAUTIFUL!!!!”“Thank you for my comforts ~ they are inspirational and always put a smile on my face!”“Thank you. I really needed that.”

Download or read book A Cast of Caregivers written by Sherri Snelling and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caregiving role will you play? How will you avoid the caregiving cost drain? Are you prepared for the end? How will you overcome stress, burn-out, depression, guilt? How will you find happiness and support? How do you start the caregiving conversation with a loved one? Are you caring for yourself while caregiving? More than 65 million Americans are caring for a loved one yet most dont know what they are facing or where to get help. Caregiving expert Sherri Snelling shines a spotlight on the world of caregiving and interviews celebrities who have taken the caregiving journey and shared their lessons learned. This how-to guide also covers caregiving topics A to Z, self-care advice and more. Inside you will find numerous expert interviews and tips on how to have the C-A-R-E Conversation and how to find your Me Time Monday. Written to inspire and empower you, this is your screenplay for health and happiness while caregiving. As Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz, Toto, I have a feeling were not in Kansas anymore. Welcome to the Cast of Caregivers.

Download or read book Passages in Caregiving written by Gail Sheehy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. With 15 videos and text focused on strategies one needs to bear the responsibility of caring for someone close to them, the enhanced e-book of Passages In Caregiving takes you by the hand and shows you that you will get through this — and you will do the right things. With empathy and intelligence, backed by formidable research, and interspersed with poignant stories of her experience and that of successful care givers, Passages in Caregiving examines the arc of caregiving from the very first signs of trouble — providing invaluable advice and guidance to help turn a stressful, life-altering situation into a journey that can be safely navigated and from which everyone can benefit.

Download or read book A Journey for Two written by Jeanne R. Lord and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the mother-daughter relationship in the context of caregiving Jeanne Lord provides valuable emotional support and information for daughter caregivers to mother patients during a stressful and uncertain time. It is unique in that it offers not only personal insights from caregiving daughters, but the perspectives of their mothers, as well. Lord followed the women on their journeys over the course of ten years, so the follow-up interviews give readers an opportunity to fast forward into the future lives of the caregiving daughters to read about their perspectives, and gain insights into new attitudes and ideas for life after caregiving. Through compelling stories of a variety of mother-daughter relationships and in-depth interviews, the very complex relationships between mothers and daughters in a caregiving situation are explored and revealed in an objective light. Offering comfort and understanding to the reader, the book also offers suggestions, ideas, resources, and support for navigating the care of their loved one.

Download or read book The Unexpected Journey of Caring written by Donna Thomson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Judy Woodruff, The Unexpected Journey of Caring is a practical guide to finding personal meaning in the 21st century care experience. Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek out—not one that hunts us down. Becoming a caregiver is one transformation that comes at us, requiring us to rethink everything we once knew. Everything changes—responsibilities, beliefs, hopes, expectations, and relationships. Caregiving is not just a role reserved for “saints”—eventually, everyone is drafted into the caregiver role. It’s not a role people medically train for; it’s a new type of relationship initiated by a loved one’s need for care. And it’s a role that cannot be quarantined to home because it infuses all aspects of our lives. Caregivers today find themselves in need of a crash course in new and unfamiliar skills. They must not only care for a loved one, but also access hidden community resources, collaborate with medical professionals, craft new narratives consistent with the changing nature of their care role, coordinate care with family, seek information and peer support using a variety of digital platforms, and negotiate social support—all while attempting to manage conflicts between work, life, and relationship roles. The moments that mark us in the transition from loved one to caregiver matter because if we don’t make sense of how we are being transformed, we risk undervaluing our care experiences, denying our evolving beliefs, becoming trapped by other’s misunderstandings, and feeling underappreciated, burned out, and overwhelmed. Informed by original caregiver research and proven advocacy strategies, this book speaks to caregiving as it unfolds, in all of its confusion, chaos, and messiness. Readers won’t find well-intentioned clichés or care stereotypes in this book. There are no promises to help caregivers return to a life they knew before caregiving. No, this book greets caregivers where they are in their journey—new or chronic—not where others expect (or want) them to be.

Download or read book Caregiving for Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders written by Steven H. Zarit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisting someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer’s disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from managing the person’s finances to helping with intimate activities such as bathing and dressing. Key coverage in Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders includes: Early diagnosis and family dynamics Emotional needs of caregivers Developmentally appropriate long-term care for people with Alzheimer’s Family caregivers as members of the Alzheimer’s treatment Team Legal and ethical issues for caregivers Faith and spirituality The economics of caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease Cultural, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic issues of minority caregivers Advances in Alzheimer’s disease research Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.

Download or read book Caregivers written by Tom Randall and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is the Companion Study Guide to go along with the book: Caregivers The Unsung Heroes of Our Day. Are you aware that there are an estimated 58 million disabled people and 63 million non-professional caregivers in the USA alone? The key to helping families who have who have been affected by a disability, a terminal or debilitating illness or chronic pain issues centers on those who often live in the shadows: the caregivers. As a caregiver to his disabled wife for over 26 of their 45 years of marriage and as a Pastor and Counselor for 41 years, Dr. Tom in Caregivers: The Unsung Heroes of Our Day captures their uplifting story and precious insights to help fellow caregivers gain a healthy approach for handling adversity. Looking through the eyes of one who lives on the frontline of adversity, Caregivers: the Unsung Heroes of Our Day addresses the pressing question of how do I handle adversity? Though no experience is exactly the same, the insights offered to caregivers bring hope and support to those who have been called to now care for a loved one and their families. At the outset of any adversity we find ourselves awakened to the hidden painful side of life with certain immediate and unwanted adverse effects that most often become overwhelming. Hopelessness arises with the words, "there is no cure" and from the silence that comes from one's scream of "Why God?" The compounding nature of such effects and the severity of the problems that arise then present a series of challenges that necessitate each caregiver to adjust, even before the long-term effects are firmly established. Here is where caregivers find themselves needing to understand and make five-non-negotiable adjustments that will be essential for their household. Further needed insight for married couples offers essential secrets to holding their marriage together. Yet, these adjustments do not necessarily produce permanent change, but they ultimately lead us to an acceptance that brings a personal transformation and causes change to occur, leading us to a meaningful mobilization toward God and others in need. It is here where we learn how to recognize God's fingerprints in a world where evil and God co-exist. All this and more are intended to help caregivers build a proper mindset for handling unwanted adversity, which finds them as key for the health and success of their family. Crises and their corresponding sufferings have a way of redirecting our thinking, our priorities, our values, goals, dreams and our source of strength in our relationships with God and people. They have a way of making the spiritual dimension of life so much more real to us in our daily lives. They direct us to look beyond our immediate circumstances and our human egos, and when in harmony with the Lord, to ask, "Lord, how can we join You and be of service to You this day? How can we take this adversity and turn it to be of help to others? How can we take what we have learned from Your comforting ways with us to comfort others?" It is in these moments that adversity begins its transforming ways, while the fingerprints of God, whether we recognize them or not, begin their life-altering changes to our character. The strength of human spirit, the transforming acceptance and the power from the powerless that draws out of us a spirit of compassion, mercy and kindness, bear evidence that the God whose delight finds expression with His mercy, further births passions that mobilize us to action. When courage and a sense of determination meet within a person in the face of adversity or a crisis, we depict what many refer to as heroes. Yet, show me those who demonstrate a strength of human spirit coupled with compassion, and I will show you the Unsung Heroes of Life. Here is where we find Caregivers: The Unsung Heroes of Our Day.