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Caring for Aging Parents
Richard P. Johnson
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The most important people in your life-your parents-were there for you when you needed them most. But now things have changed: your parents need you to care for them as they grow older. This book offers an opportunity for personal spiritual growth among the emotional tangles of frustration, hopelessness and guilt when it comes to dealing with your aging parents. You can equip yourself with knowledge of successful cargiving and aging, finding support for your efforts and depending on the help of God's Holy Spirit to inject your faith into the caregiving role.
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Complete Guide to Caring for Aging Loved Ones
Focus on the Family
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Whether you're facing the prospect of caring for an aging loved one or are currently in the midst of it, here's the help and hope you need to manage the practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of caregiving. This long-overdue reference deals with important topics like understanding your multiple roles as caregiver, finding quality medical, financial and legal advice, and many other end-of-life issues. A Focus on the Family resource; paperback.
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Caring For Your Aging Parents
Barbara Deane
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In this warm and well-researched guide, Barbara Deane deals comprehensively with the many challenges of caring for an aging parent or relative. Some of the topics covered include: how to adjust to role reversal and loss of independence, reconcilliation of past differences, and how to understand the emotional distress of aging. Deane furnishes the emotional support and practical advice caregivers need to provide good care and keep from burning out in the process.
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Elf Help: Caregiver Therapy
Victoria O'Conner
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Elf-help books reveal what's truly important as they offer self-nurturing advice with charm, poignancy, and humor. Caregiver Therapy shows you how to take care of yourself as you take care of others. Elf-help books are 4" x 6", perfect-bound paperback, and approx. 80 pages.
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The Eldercare Handbook: Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions
Stella Mora Henry R.N.
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The Eldercare Handbook combines a daughter's compassion with the expertise of a trusted professional, thanks to Stella Henry's unique experiences as both a daughter who cared for her father at home and her mother in long-term care, and a 36-year veteran administrator who has counseled thousands of families on care giving. In this accessible book, she helps readers navigate the daunting logistics and powerful emotions of making care decisions for a loved one. She tackles all the tough issues, from spotting the warning signs of dementia to redefining sibling roles; from the all-important walk-through at the assisted living facility or nursing home to making the move; from when and how to visit to coping with demands of "Take me home!" She also demystifies the medical/legal/insurance maze.
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NRSV Gift Bible: Caregiver's Edition
Retail Price: $21.95
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Taking care of others' needs is a rewarding task, but challenging at times. It takes a huge servant's heart to be a caregiver day after day. Whether you are a professional caregiver or find yourself in that role for a family member or friend, it's comforting to know that God speaks to you through God's word. God offers you wisdom, encouragement, patience, and most of all strength to do the honorable job of caring for others.
This beautiful new Bible is the perfect gift for you or someone you know who would be blessed by the special sections contained within that lift the spirit and give strength. The Caregiver's Bible is a beautiful way to remember someone who needs God's loving words and kindness!
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Boomers on the Edge: Three Realities That Will Change Your Life Forever
Terry Hargrave
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With aging parents to care for, adult children returning home, and soaring medical expenses, baby boomers are facing additional obligations amid fading dreams of retirement. Let Hargrave's practical advice help you transform challenges into chances---to build a legacy, master the hard lessons of parental discipline, and deepen your faith in light of financial realities. 240 pages, softcover from Zondervan.
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The Overwhelmed Woman's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents
Julie-Allyson Ieron
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They loved, cared, and provided for you. Now the tables are turned. How can you best meet the needs of your aging parents? Drawing on personal experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research, Ieron addresses common but stressful concerns such as maintaining independence, dealing with life-threatening medical issues, navigating the health-care system, and coping with anger. Paperback.
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Changing Places: A Christian's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents
Betty Benson Roberson
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This book includes resources for: organizing the care-giving process; selecting an appropriate housing option; untangling legal and financial issues; coping with the emotional challenges; finding help in the community; and nurturing your spiritual walk in the midst of difficult times. It includes forms, checklists, and how-to's for caring for your loved ones.
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Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers
Judith Allen Shelly
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This personal and practical book deals with hard issues and difficult situations that people with serious physical needs confront. Shelly explains how to offer spiritual support to those facing suffering, illness or other crises.
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The Twenty-Third Psalm For Caregivers
Carmen Leal
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This book offers devotional encouragement, hope, and tender affirmation for all caregivers no matter the disease or situation. Fifteen true-life stories about caregivers dealing with a variety of diseases provide teaching, entertainment, and inspiration while drawing the reader to God.
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On Death and Dying: What The Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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(PUBTouchstone)A classic! Drawing on her extensive research and interviews with terminally ill patients in the 1960s, Kubler-Ross came up with the famous paradigm of five stages for dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Helpful for counselors, pastors, and hospital staff. 272 pages, softcover.
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Parenting Your Parents
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The focus of this small-group resource is on helping adults think through the issues involved with aging parents, act on these, and find support among others dealing with the same issues. You will begin by looking at some of the reasons why parental care can be a painful subject and why this issue is a social problem as well as a personal one. Dorothy Gager, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, has experience working with older adults in a variety of settings and offers priceless insights to those she empathizes with. The Life Search series deals with a variety of topics viewed through a Christian context. This series is meant to be discussed in a small group setting. This shifts problems being dealt on a person level to rather a community concern. This helps individual see they are not alone in their problems, concerns, and questions.
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Compassionate Caregiving: Practical Help and Spiritual Encouragement
Lois Knutson
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Most caregivers today have no training for the role into which they are thrust. Having been the primary caregiver for her mother, Lois Knutson draws on not only her years of experience, but also her professional training to offer encouragement and assistance to caregivers. Because she knows the situations that weigh down caregivers, Knutson gently builds them up as they continue to care for their elderly loved ones. In addition to practical tips, caregivers will find ways to care for themselves. Subjects addressed in Compassionate Caregiving include: how to balance work and caregiving; when and how to find home healthcare or care facilities; long-distance caregiving; how to provide care for the dying; and much more.
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