Eldercare category: 429 books
Careless Caregivers
True Eldercare Stories of Rotten Bananas, Stolen Morphine & Shrinky Dinks™
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Careless Caregivers is not a planner or guide to eldercare nor is it a diary or journal relating an eldercare odyssey. Rather, it is a short collection of true stories about one family’s eldercare experience with hired in-home caregivers. Told in a blunt and humorous fashion, the book has a simple...
by Danielle Dresden, MEd, CRC
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Gold Winner, 2013 Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards, Family & Relationships Category
A practical, accessible, and comprehensive guide to the legal, financial, emotional and daily living challenges of caring for aging parents while raising your own family.
If you are...
The Complete Eldercare Planner, Revised and Updated Edition
Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The only guide you’ll ever need to manage the care of your aging family
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
As our population shifts and ages, the care needs for our elders continue to change and evolve. Today’s generation of family and professional caregivers faces new decisions and challenges,...
The Eldercare Consultant
Your Guide to Making the Best Choices Possible
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Your elderly father's memory is failing fast. Your increasingly frail mother just took another fall. Whatever the situation, The Eldercare Consultant can provide the knowledge, support, and encouragement you seek. Weaving together real-life stories with the essential information needed to make the...
The Eldercare Handbook
Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this comprehensive and accessible guide, long-term care expert Stella Henry helps readers navigate the daunting logistics and powerful emotions of making care decisions for an elderly parent or loved one. Drawing from her 36 years as a registered nurse and a nursing home administrator, as well...
Eldercare Confidential
Cautionary Tales for Adult Caregivers and Caretakers of Parents and Spouses
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
A CANDID GUIDE FOR CAREGIVERS Eldercare Confidential is for the caregivers and caretakers who are often thrust into the role of fiduciary, either by legal appointment or by assuming the role because of their relationship to the elderly person who needs caretaking. Typically, this is a close relative,...
Protecting Your Family's Assets in Florida
How to Legally Use Medicaid to Pay for Nursing Home and Assisted Living Care, SECOND EDITION
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Florida, private-pay costs at nursing facilities can exceed $6,000 per month!
In Florida, private-pay costs at nursing facilities can exceed $6,000 per month. Many families cannot afford to pay such excessive amounts — which can total more than $70,000 per year. The Florida...
by Lita Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
This book will answer all the financial and legal questions that can arise when caring for the elderly, including:
How do you plan for the management of the elderÆs affairs should he become incompetent in the future?
Is the proper insurance being carried or can it be restructured to reduce expenses?
How...
Nasty, Brutish, and Long
Adventures in Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
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A candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare
In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo,...
by Rachelle Zukerman
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Cope with legal, financial, and medical issues
Minimize anxiety and stress and make the later years golden
Need help caring for an elderly loved one? This sensitive, reassuring guide provides strategies for assessing older persons' needs, arranging for care, ensuring their safety, and...
Your Amazing Itty Bitty® Eldercare Book
15 Key Steps on How to Keep Your Elderly Parent At Home – Safe & Comfortable
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Caring Caregiver Book for Families Help the one you love stay in their own home - by Applying 15 Key Steps for Keeping Your Elderly Parent at Home – Safely & Comfortably. Every caring child wants to keep their elderly parent healthy, comfortable and vibrant in their own home. They want to share...
by Rick Lauber
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
One in five Canadians are now providing eldercare to a parent in need, and as baby-boomers age, this number is likely to grow. What do you do when your mother or father grows old? It’s the natural course of life, but so many children of aging parents are unprepared. When a parent’s health begins...
by Rick Lauber
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
You may be among the tens of millions of Americans who provide care for your parent — or you may be among the ten of millions who will. So many children are caught unprepared when physical and mental health declines in aging parents. Life cannot readily prepare you to furnish excellent eldercare...
How to Age in Place
Planning for a Happy, Independent, and Financially Secure Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The first authoritative and comprehensive guide to "aging in place"--a burgeoning movement for those who don't want to rely on assisted living or nursing home care--which allows seniors to spend their later years living comfortably, independently, and in their own home or community.
For...