Download or read book The Family Caregiver s Guide written by Harriet Hodgson and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a loved one at home. What’s really involved? And what does it mean for your family and future? Tens of millions of Americans have had these questions and more as they prepare for this unsettling yet necessary task. The Family Caregiver’s Guide fills in the gaps, connecting the dots between research and real life. Drawing on the author’s extensive caregiving experience, this book provides strategies to care for your loved one, inside and out, as well as for yourself—including how to use your natural skills in your new role, and which skills you may need to add. You’ll discover how to set up your home for caregiving, including a safety checklist, equipment suggestions, and words you should know. And for those days that are more than a handful, you’ll find positive affirmations, a section on facing and accepting illness, and smart steps at the end of each chapter, in case you need guidance in a hurry. Caregiving has both rewards and challenges. But through it all, you’ll discover what’s most important—that caregiving is love in action.
Download or read book The Caregiver Helpbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the greatest challenges of being a family caregiver is maintaining one's own physical and emotional health. This book, developed as part of the family caregiver education program, 'Powerful Tools for Caregivers,' is designed to provide caregivers with tools to increase self care and give them confidence in handling difficult situations, emotions, and decisions." -- from back cover.
Download or read book Already Toast written by Kate Washington and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill.
Download or read book The Family Caregiver s Cookbook written by Harriet Hodgson and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re in the caregiving trenches and barely make it through the day, let alone have the energy to prepare fancy meals. But meals don’t have to be fancy or hard to make in order to be delicious, nutritious, and healthy. Harriet Hodgson, a dedicated home cook, former food writer, and family caregiver, wanted to fix delicious meals for her disabled husband. A creative cook, Harriet adapted favorite family recipes and created new ones for this book, reducing salt, fat, and sugar. Personal stories add to the recipes and each one ends with “Caregiver Tips.” You’ll get tips on how to stock your pantry, speed shop for groceries, understand the effects of sodium, and practice food safety. The book is set in larger print that makes it easy to read. Treat your loved one—and yourself—to these easy-fix, delicious, and satisfying recipes. Make every meal a celebration of life!
Download or read book Long term Care and the Role of Family Caregivers written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healthy Family Cookbook written by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty fun, fast, tasty, and healthy recipes for the whole family to enjoy together! If you feel challenged to serve your family healthy meals, much less to do it every day, The Healthy Family Cookbook is here to show you that nutritious food doesn’t have to be bland or take a long time and a lot of work to prepare—anyone can prepare healthy recipes that taste great and satisfy everyone, even the pickiest eaters. In these bright pages with full-color photographs, you’ll find over forty health-conscious recipes for a wide variety of kid-tested and kid-approved foods such as Southwestern Beef Roll-Ups, Hawaiian Huli Huli Chicken, and Mexican Lasagna that are certain to be instant hits in any family! The foods within include healthy entrees, side dishes, and snacks that appeal to children and adults, all with recipes that are budget-friendly, multicultural, and quick and easy for even busy families to make. Each recipe was created to fit into any family’s healthy eating plan, with lean cuts of meat, a focus on whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and lots of herbs and spices for bold flavor. And, with helpful tips for kids such as preparation notes and guides to the most leftover-friendly meals, these recipes offer a delicious way for your family to eat together in any circumstance. The Healthy Family Cookbook features fun and family-friendly recipes such as: Red, White, and Green Grilled Cheese Dunkin’ Veggies and Chips Wow-y Maui Pasta Salad Grapesicles Crunchy Chicken Fingers with Tangy Dipping Sauce Buttons-and-Bows Pasta And many more!
Download or read book So You re Raising Your Grandkids written by Harriet Hodgson and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a grandparent raising your grandchildren, help has arrived. According to the US Census Bureau, more than 10% of all grandparents in the nation are raising their grandkids, and the number is going up. You may be one of the millions of these grandparents and it's a role you never expected. Willing as you are to assume this role, you have some questions. How will I find the energy for this? Is my grandchild normal? What if I "blow it?" Each day, you look for ways to make life easier. This book will: •Help ease your worries and guilt; •Offer tips for creating a grandfamily; •Give methods for improving grandparent-grandchild communication; •Suggest ideas for how you can connect with your grandchild's school; •Provide child development information; •Recommend approaches to help your grandchild set goals; •Stress the importance of having fun together; •Offer ideas of how to foster your grandchild's hopes and dreams. So, You're Raising Your Grandkids blends Harriet Hodgson's wise and moving grandparenting story with recent research and findings. It shares her 21 years of caregiving experience, including seven years of raising her twin grandkids. Each chapter ends with What Works, proven tips for grandparents raising grandkids. At the end, you'll cheer for all the loving grandparents---including you---who are putting grandchildren first.
Download or read book Power of 5 Test Kitchen Cookbook Caregiver Edition written by Melissa S Bernstein, OT, FAOTA and published by Dynamic Learning Online, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caregivers Rejoice! THIS COOKBOOK IS FOR YOU.It can be challenging to cook for loved ones battling neurodegenerative illness. And while it is important for all to remain involved with meaningful activities, finding ways to keep everyone safe and engaged during meal preparation can be difficult. As a veteran occupational therapist and certified chef, Melissa’s passion for helping you and your loved ones, care recipient, to stay healthy and connected through food will bring hope and fulfillment to your kitchen. This cookbook is packed full of recipes, helpful hints, and the tools you need to promote safe and meaningful engagement.Your kitchen can be a place where fun and health flourish, no matter the challenges you face. Get Started Today!
Download or read book Empowering Families written by Judy Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The home–school connection is important to student literacy achievement. However, it can be time-consuming to develop and implement programming that keeps families engaged and involved. Empowering Families makes it easier to accomplish these goals! Chock-full of step-by-step plans for arranging a variety of parent/caregiver meetings and literacy booster events, the book enables educators to get families involved in their children’s learning in ways that are fun and non-intimidating. By hosting these events at your school, you’ll be empowering families to... read aloud to their children at home; minimize the summer slide; encourage male involvement in literacy; help their children avoid homework hassles; and much, much more! Bonus: The book includes ready-to-use handouts for your events, such as announcement sheets, follow-up evaluations, and tipsheets that describe ways parents can reinforce literacy at home. These handouts are photocopiable and the tipsheets are also available for easy download from our website at www.routledge.com/9781138803114. Spanish versions of the tipsheets are available on our website as well.
Download or read book The Keto Cookbook written by Laura Cramp, RD, LD, CNSC and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keto Cookbook is for those using the ketogenic diet to treat pediatric epilepsy and other neurologic conditions. Each of the 96 recipes for breakfast and brunch, appetizers and snacks, lunch, dinner, and sweets and treats, are compliant with the Keto Calculator and therefore ingredient portions are provided in grams. The ketogenic diet, which is very high in fats and low in carbohydrates, was first developed almost 80 years ago. It makes the body burn fat for energy instead of glucose. When carefully monitored by a medical team familiar with its use, the diet helps two out of three children who are tried on it and may prevent seizures completely in one out of three. It is a strict diet, and takes a strong commitment from the whole family. The ketogenic diet is not a do-it-yourself diet. It is a serious form of treatment that, like other therapies for epilepsy, has some side effects that have to be watched for. The book includes a 16-page color insert illustrating each recipe. Since many children start the Keto Diet before they speak, the pictures of the meal and snack options allow children to choose what they want, helping overcome food refusal due to lack of variety of foods and/or child's loss of control over food options. This book provides parents and children with options that have been tested and are kid- and Registered Dietitian- approved. Features of The Keto Cookbook include: 96 kid and dietitian tested and approved recipes for the keto diet presented in full color Recipes are coded by symbol to indicate personality type and cooking times Allergy information for the eight most common allergens Practical suggestions to help people "keto-proof" their life, from the kitchen, to the car, to the classroom. Four sample shopping lists and vacation guidelines will help families prepare for the unexpected Sample forms for the Transportation Safety Agency, School/Daycare Center, and Emergency Room/Primary Physician
Download or read book The Petit Appetit Cookbook written by Lisa Barnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Petit Appetit Cookbook, mother and professional cook Lisa Barnes offers a healthy all-organic alternative to commercially processed, preservative-filled foods to help create delicious menus, nurture adventurous palates, and begin a lifetime of positive eating habits for children. Includes: 150+ easy, fast, child-tested recipes for ages 4 months to 4 years Mealtime solutions for even the most finicky eaters Nutritional information for each recipe Time-saving cooking techniques The right age- and stage-appropriate food choices How and when to introduce solids to baby's diet Adapting family recipes for young children Recognizing signs of food allergies and intolerances
Download or read book The Cancer Wellness Cookbook written by Kimberly Mathai, MS, RD, CDE and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a cancer patient undergoing treatment, a caregiver, or a survivor, you’ll find this cookbook and nutritional guide essential—it includes the latest scientific research on improving the lives of people living with cancer. Created by Seattle’s Cancer Lifeline, The Cancer Wellness Cookbook features nutritional plans and 100 recipes focusing on the foods that have been shown to prevent and forestall the spread of cancer. With super healthy and delicious ingredients like berries, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, and fish, these dishes taste great and are filled with the nutrients that aid a person undergoing chemotherapy and other cancer treatments.
Download or read book Everyday Heroes Family Caregivers Face Increasing Challenges in an Aging Nation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meals to Heal Cookbook written by Susan Bratton and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutrition is a vital component of anyone's fight against cancer, but loss of appetite and side effects of treatment can make even the simple act of eating a challenge. Written to meet the unique needs of cancer patients and caregivers, The Meals to Heal Cookbook offers 150 recipes to make eating less stressful, more convenient, and simply more enjoyable. Created by oncology-credentialed registered dietitians, these delicious, nourishing, easy-to-prepare dishes are full of the nutrients you need to maintain strength during treatment. Loaded with essential nutrition info and recipes coded by common symptoms and side effects (including fatigue, nausea, digestive issues, mouth sores, taste and smell aversion, and others).
Download or read book Call My Name Take My Hand Recipes for Caregivers written by Laura R. Hess and published by . This book was released on 1991-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connecting in the Land of Dementia written by Deborah Shouse and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative ideas designed so care partners can engage and connect with people living with dementia. On the dementia journey, each quality moment of connection is priceless. Deborah Shouse and dozens of experts in the field of dementia share ideas that engage the creative spirit so you can continue to experience those meaningful moments of connecting. These easy and adaptable projects--music, art, movies, cooking, storytelling, gardening, movement, and many more--can foster stronger relationships, renew hope, and ignite a sense of purpose for people who are living with dementia and their care partners. You don't need special skills to enjoy these expressive activities. Simply incorporate them into your daily routine and you'll enrich your time together. Deborah Shouse is a writer, speaker, editor, creativity catalyst, and dementia advocate. She has an MBA but uses it only in emergencies. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Natural Awakenings, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, Spirituality & Health, The Chicago Tribune and Unity Magazine. Deborah has been featured in many anthologies, including more than four-dozen Chicken Soup books. She has written a number of business books and for years Deborah wrote a love story column for the Kansas City Star.
Download or read book The Cancer Lifeline Cookbook written by Kimberly Mathai and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 30 years of providing counseling and support for people living with cancer, the Cancer Lifeline organization knows that one of the main areas of interest for patients and their families is food and nutrition. What foods have been shown to help prevent the spread of cancer? What are the nutritional "rules" for people with cancer? In answer, this new edition of the organization's cookbook presents up-to-date nutritional information (including the Top Ten Super Foods that may protect and fight against cancer) along with practical strategies for making healthy eating a daily practice and suggestions for reducing the side effects of treatment. It features 100 easy-to-make recipes from the nation's top chefs and from some cancer patients and survivors, including Blueberry Breakfast Cake, Honey-Glazed Green Beans with Almonds, and Citrus Chicken. These resources and more make it a natural choice for cancer survivors, people living with cancer, and those interested in a health-conscious diet.
