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

Download or read book Complete Elder Care Survival Guide written by Margaret Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Elder Law Handbook written by Peter J. Strauss and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers legal and financial advice for caregivers, the elderly, and the disabled, discussing the rights of the individual within the health care system, providing guidance on financial planning and taxes, and looking at issues related to work, retirement, and housing.

Download or read book Pre Senior Senior Survival Guide written by George Konar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following pages act as a guide in the transition process from afternoon to night with thought given to the evening, in between. The following pages are also a collection of situations, dialogue, and thoughts, with some attitude added here and there. Not a coffee table book or bathroom read but instead meant for reference, present and future. Perhaps even a convenient guide during a period of difficulty or indecisiveness.

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 The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care written by Brette McWhorter Sember and published by Sphinx Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care contains all the information you need to make the best decisions for the seniors you care about. Written by an attorney, this book explains how to manage residential, financial and medical matters as well as the legal issues that accompany them. In also addresses how to help seniors cope with the emotions that accompany aging and how to discuss with them the delicate issues that aging brings. This book will guide you in: - Arranging wills, living wills and powers of attorney - Evaluating and selecting assisted living residences, continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes - Considering long-term care insurance, Medigap coverage and reverse mortgages - Determining the level of care required - Managing a senior's finances - Working with other family members to coordinate care - Balancing your life as a caregiver - Obtaining hospice care

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 Children in Intensive Care written by Joanna H Davies and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The needs of critically ill children are unique and this handy pocket book will be invaluable to anyone who needs a quick account of intensive care procedures. It brings together all the vital information in one source and in an accessible format. The text is organised by body systems and gives helpful hints on managing children with various conditions. Tables of normal values are included and additional information is provided about equipment needed in a paediatric emergency. ?. the information is clearly laid out and so is readily accessible ?. lightweight, pocket sized and easy to use in a clinical setting ?. written by British authors - nothing quite like it on the market ?. covers equipment needed in a paediatric emergency ?. helpful hints on managing a range of patients with various conditions . brings together information not readily available in one book step by step chest x-ray interpretation including abnormalities non-invasive ventilation and capnography differentiation of upper airway obstruction new surgical options for very complex cardiac defects. diagrams of the recommended ways to move children with a suspected neck/head injury a chapter on child protection general features of common childhood illnesses

Download or read book Thirty Essential Tips to Start Managing the Alzheimer s Or Other Dementia Your Parent and Yourself written by Charlotte Keys and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty Essential Tips to Start Managing the Alzheimer's or Other Dementia, Your Parent, and Yourself is a daughter's guide through the problems and pains of caring for an ill or aging parent. The author, a professional corporate writer, cared for her mother who struggled with dementia for several years. Some of that caretaking was hands-on; some of it was struggling, while she worked full-time, to set up a living situation that would work for them both. Now, after her mother's passing, she tells you everything she wishes someone had told her then. Given in "tip" form, rather than in a running narrative, this book allows you to dive in wherever you need. Whether it's your family's not helping enough, someone bugging you to help more, or the nursing home vs. your parent's own home debate that's stressing you, this book offers suggestions on how to handle it. Do you need to find a place for your parent to live? You will find suggestions on just how to do that in this book. Do you need to figure out how to pay for his or her care? Once again, suggestions are in there. Is your parent still driving every day and you're beginning to have some concerns about it? There are suggestions in this book to help you open that conversation and begin to resolve that issue. The author even offers suggestions on how to find out about new treatments for your parent or help him or her have a good hospital stay. More than just a how-to book, it's a book about caring for that most important connection, our connection to our parent, the one relationship that endures throughout our lives, even when illness or the vagaries of fate or time interrupt.

Download or read book A Nurse s Survival Guide to Critical Care Updated Edition E Book written by Sharon L. Edwards and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices? This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty. This book will help you to Organise your job and yourself Assess patients and communicate with them Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions What to do in emergency This UPDATED edition: Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career. Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Download or read book Elderly Parents with All Their Marbles written by Pamela Carey and published by Barking Cat Books. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).

Download or read book Joan s Elder Care Guide written by Joan Y. Edwards and published by 4rv Nonfiction. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan's Elder Care Guide: Empowering You and Your Elder to Survive gives you, the caregiver, ways to meet your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social needs and those of your elder to promote healing, well-being, and survival. Based on the author's research and fourteen years of experience caring for her mother, this book provides many resources to find the right place for your elder to live, explains ways to improve communication to help find solutions to problems, and gives organization ideas formedical, financial, insurance, and legal documents. It offers ways for a caregiver to get time away from caregiving responsibilities and contains information substitutecaregivers must have to keep their elders safe. Along with all this, the book explains the signs of the end of life, ways to celebrate an elder's life, and gives duties of an executor of an estate. It also includes ten useful charts to assist in assessing and recording an elder's needs and capabilities.

Download or read book The Patient Survival Guide written by Maryanne McGuckin, Dr., Sc., Ed. and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Winner 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of The Year, Health Category The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.7 million people developed healthcare acquired infections in 2010. Since most people spend only a small part of their lives in healthcare facilities, this guidebook also tells readers how to avoid picking up serious infections in day care centers, schools, business offices, and other common locations. Unlike other books, which focus on how to change the hospital systems, The Patient Survival Guide focuses on empowering you with the knowledge and techniques to ensure a safer healthcare experience. The Patient Survival Guide: Inspires you to be a your own advocate Describes in vivid detail how your preparation and informed vigilance can significantly reduce the chances of harm and death to your loved one in a hospital Provides specific, practical, and outside-the-box strategies for anticipating and preventing errors, with chapters devoted to each of the most common mistakes and mishaps Provides checklists for patients to use upon admission to healthcare facilities

Download or read book Nursing Home Survival Guide written by Evan H. Farr Cela and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of the aging of our population and the fact that Americans are living longer than ever before, more Americans are developing chronic illnesses that require long-term care, and we all face increasingly difficult challenges and more transitions in our lives than ever before. One of the most difficult transitions that Americans must face for themselves and their loved ones is the "final move" - a transition that's made by over 40% of the American population - the move to a nursing home. Rich, poor, or somewhere in between, 99 percent of Americans can't afford to ignore the potentially catastrophic costs of nursing home care and other types of long-term care, such as assisted living and in-home care. In fact, long-term care costs are so high that 70 percent of Americans become impoverished within a year of entering a nursing home. Chances are that someone close to you has lost their dignity and their life savings by winding up broke in a nursing home. This Nursing Home Survival Guide is designed to provide much-needed information and answers to the important questions you will encounter as you go through this challenging transition. The Nursing Home Survival Guide is the definitive guide for helping you protect your loved ones who need nursing home care by preserving their dignity, quality of life, and financial security. This book provides invaluable information and guidance to families dealing with the possibility of nursing home care and struggling to make the best decisions for themselves or their loves ones. If you're a Baby Boomer or older, this book also helps you gain the peace of mind of knowing that there are ways to not outlive your money. Author Evan Farr is the creator of the Living Trust Plus Asset Protection System used by dozens of Estate Planning and Elder Law Attorneys around the country, and is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts in the nation in the field of Medicaid Asset Protection and related Trusts. A nationally-renowned Best-Selling author and frequent educator of attorneys across the U.S., Evan is known as the "expert to the experts," having educated tens of thousands of attorneys across the country, and now in this book is using his mastery of the subject to educate consumers about the ever-changing landscape of nursing home care in America and, most importantly, how to get the best care and how pay for that care without going broke. In 25 easily readable and understandable chapters, Mr. Farr covers diverse topics ranging from the basics -- what is a nursing home, what is long-term care, what is the caregiver's role, how do you select the best facility, what does Medicare cover, how to get the best long-term care insurance -- to the advanced, such as Veterans Aid & Attendance Planning, Medicaid Asset Protection, Pre-Need Medicaid Planning, and Medicaid Crisis Planning. Along the way he provides a valuable Nursing Home Evaluation Tool, answers many Frequently Asked Questions about Medicaid, covers the important topic of Why Medicaid Planning is Ethical, and provides valuable Medicaid Case Studies showing the application of some of the most common Medicaid Asset Protection strategies to real-life situations. This book also has chapters on Moving your Loved One, How to Get The Best Possible Care, The Rights of Nursing Home Residents, Recognizing Abuse & Neglect, What to do if You Suspect Abuse or Neglect, Estate and Incapacity Planning, and How to Find the Best Lawyer.

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 Real Truth About Aging written by Michael A. Silverman, M.D. and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As life expectancy continues to increase, millions of seniors are living well into their eighties and nineties. With the aging of the baby boomers, the population of senior citizens will swell dramatically in the coming decades. These statistics will inevitably draw more attention to the aging process. What should middle-aged people expect as they grow older? What should caregivers of the elderly know about normal aging? How can we all stay healthy despite the limitations of age? In this authoritative, user-friendly guide, three experts in geriatric medicine provide the latest evidence on: healthy aging, an understanding of the modern and often confusing health care system, and information about the medical issues affecting frail older adults. They begin with the basic facts of aging, distilling the current research on the underlying molecular mechanisms, organ system changes, and associated disease risks that occur as our bodies get older. They devote separate chapters to preventative medical testing, so-called anti-aging therapies, vitamin and herbal supplements, exercise, and medication problems. In the next section, they present an overview of the American healthcare system, from making the most of a doctor''s visit and an explanation of various healthcare professionals involved in elder care to guidelines for choosing a nursing home or assisted care facility. They also discuss the health risks of a stay in the hospital, including antibiotic-resistant infections, temporary delirium, and bedsores. In the following section, they tackle the challenges of caring for a frail senior, covering a range of issues from falls, osteoporosis, and infections, to sleep difficulties, depression, and dementia. A chapter is also devoted to the last days of life and how hospice can help. The authors also provide a section on the need to plan ahead. Among the questions considered are: When should an advance directive be written? How much money will be needed for the elder years? When should a senior give up driving? At a time when geriatric medicine is becoming a rare specialty and doctors receive little training in this area, the wealth of information compiled in this outstanding volume is invaluable. Senior citizens, their families, and even healthcare professionals will find it to be an unparalleled resource.