Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia
Written by Kate Whouley
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $16.00
A chronicle of the profound, life-changing, and laugh-out-loud funny moments in the journey of an Alzheimer’s caregiver
Kate Whouley is a smart, single woman who faces life head-on. Her mother, Anne, is a strong-minded accidental feminist with a weakness for unreliable men. Their complicated relationship isn’t simplified when Anne exhibits symptoms of...
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A Bittersweet Season
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Written by Jane Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined. As she and her younger brother struggled to move her mother into an assisted living facility, deal with seemingly never-ending costs, and adapt to...
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A Bittersweet Season
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Written by Jane Gross
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in
A Bittersweet Season
As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate...
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Insider's Guide to Better Nursing Home Care
75 Tips You Should Know
Written by Donna M. Reed
Format: Trade Paperback, 222 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $17.99
As the baby-boomer generation ages, nursing home care is likely to become a major social problem. New residents will put huge strains on already short staffing at a time when funding to government-assisted homes (75 percent of all nursing homes) is lower than ever.
Based on her ten years of...
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Eldercare 911
The Caregiver's Complete Handbook for Making Decisions
Written by Susan Beerman
Format: Trade Paperback, 668 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2008
Price: $26.99
Publishers Weekly hailed the first edition of Eldercare 911 as an "excellent, comprehensive guidebook." Today it continues to be the best "how to" book on the market for anyone facing the challenges of caring for an elderly loved one. Now this revised, updated, and expanded edition will offer the best step-by-step...
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