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 enhancing quality of life – all while respecting their dignity. You’ll see how …
The Family Guide to Aging Parents: Answers to Your Legal, Financial, and Healthcare Questions
Are your aging parents resisting your attempts to help them? Are you concerned your aging loved ones will run out of money and you will have to shoulder the financial burden? Are you worried that the care of your aging parents will cause conflict with your siblings? Are you afraid your aging parents will make unwise financial decisions …
In an epidemic of overmedication, where can you turn for help? We’ve all read the headlines: prescription drugs can kill you. If that’s the case, why are so many Americans, particularly those sixty and older, given so many pills with no regard to how they interact with one another? Fifth-generation pharmacist Armon B. Neel, Jr., is on a …
In November 2009 Jana Panarites was scrambling to make ends meet in LA. Her career spiraling out of control, she didn’t think life could get any worse until she learned of her father’s sudden death two days before Thanksgiving. She flew east for the funeral, and was forced to confront her future head-on at the sight of her …
What would you do if your mother was having memory problems? Five million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, with a new diagnosis being made every seventy-two seconds, with millions more at risk. Although experts agree that early diagnosis and treatment are essential, families don’t know where to turn for authoritative, state-of-the-art advice and answers to all of their questions.Now, …
Understandably, most of us are worried about placing our loved one in a care facility, especially if they are frail and vulnerable. We worry about abuse, neglect, cost, and other undesirable issues the media tends to churn out as front-page news. In this book, author Joseph Spada, LPN, offers you insider’s guidance into long-term care, clearly explaining what …
Montessori-Based Activities for Persons with Dementia, Volume 2 is the follow-up companion to Myers Reserach Institute’s first volume. This manual represents the culmination of years of effort, involving a large number of people. In preparing Volume 2, the authors incorporated reader feedback into the development of new activities programming for individuals with dementia and other cognitve disorders …