Elder Care

In this non-fiction book, listeners are introduced to the heartbreaking and infuriating stories of three patients and their families who experienced a complete lack of care and compassion in an American Long Term Acute Care Hospital. Despite the desperate pleas and efforts of their families, these patients were neglected and even denied basic needs, resulting in tragic outcomes.

Join Carla Henry Lewis in "Comedy of Blessings," a journey through the highs and lows of caregiving. With humor and grace, she shares her experiences, introducing the transformative A.R.K Method. Carla’s narrative is a testament to laughter, resilience, and the indomitable human spirit. As a caregiver to her aging parents and a spouse with health challenges, she has navigated love, sacrifice, and joy.

Everything changed when Laura turned 13 and her father developed Alzheimer's disease. She became the perfect caregiver daughter. She literally and figuratively became her dad's caregiver. Detective Liz Roberts is assigned to a case when a confused man is found alone, wandering around the Big Fresno Fair, unable to tell anyone who he is or where he came from. The only clue to his identity is a piece of paper in his pocket that says, "My name is Larry". As Liz uncovers his identity, she also begins to uncover long-kept secrets.

Marvin D. Bryson acted as a primary caregiver for over a decade. Coping with Caregiving is a follow-up to his previous book, Expectancy: A Caregiver's Story of Navigating Family Issues Between Retirement and Transition, that details how he and his siblings cared for a parent with dementia that lived into her early 90s. Coping with Caregiving picks up where Expectancy ended (assisted living care), and contains new chapters on skilled nursing, palliative care, hospice care, and self care, along with an updated glossary of legal and medical terminology.

This audio bundle helps you quickly and easily lose weight. After years of making bodybuilders miserable, "If It Fits Your Macros" was born. IIFYM is a way to improve one's body composition by not relying completely on clean foods. Learn all about how you can benefit, and also discover the fundamentals of intermittent fasting and how it is one of the easiest way to lose weight while building lean muscle. Learn all the basics of food prepping, different foods that you can use to prep your meals in a lot of different ways, and how to prepare them the right and nutritious way.

This book will teach you everything you need to know about weight lifting and muscle building for achieving your body's natural potential. It will show you exactly how often and at what pace to exercise, and help you design a personalized fitness plan that will show real, visible results! It will become crystal clear which exercises your body needs, how often to do them, how to do them and how to get ready, how to rest afterward to enhance your shape, and how to fit exercise into your busy schedule. This book is perfectly suited to the real-life needs of real-life people!

Help Is Here: When a Resident Has Dementia is for staff members in senior residences who are caring for residents with dementia. This book is full of examples of situations that happen at senior residences and how to effectively handle those situations.

This guide is intended for adult sons and daughters of their aging parent to help retain either staying in their home safely or identify what level of care is optimal in the community. I review levels of care and precisely what a person's abilities look like at each level, which will help patients and families understand their options for meeting specific care needs. This often translates to the cost you may pay, for example, at your chosen assisted living facility.

This book can be used when making difficult healthcare decisions at home with no available guidance. It is also used if one's financial situation is such that a family is concerned about not being able to afford some or all care being offered. In such situations, this book helps patients, families, and neighbors gather together as they make difficult decisions right in their homes.

Many people, especially the inventors of modern technology, often assume that creating better technology is the key to giving people a better way of life. This assumption is true in some respects. However,what very few people seem to understand is that technology also serves to worsen the stress level of the people who are using it. The faster a gadget or a mechanism works, the bigger the pressure on the individual to do or accomplish more feats. This often leads people to feel more harried and less relaxed.