To learn how you can become a member, click here.

 

 

Discusses how community action can strengthen a caregiver's experience and how it can change the challenges that they face. Users of this book can be part of sharing knowledge, insight, and experience.

This self help book brings peace of mind to those struggling with the responsibility of caring for someone with chronic or long-term health problems. The 366 daily meditations offer compassionate reassurance and gentle encouragement in simple, down-to-earth language.

Provides the information you need to take the best possible care of an elderly, ill, or disabled person in a home setting. The book explains such essentials as how to plan and arrange a room to adapt to a loved one's needs and how to give medication, maintain hygiene, monitor symptoms and provide emotional support.

 

This handbook talks about being a care-receiver, being a caregiver, managing caregiving, becoming a partner with the home health care team, and community resources within Fraser Health.

 

This handbook addresses many of the barriers to healthy eating: time, effort, knowledge and skills, taste and cost. It also addresses food safety, which is key for promoting health. It includes information about supplements and how to eat with less fat and salt, to keep a healthy body weight, to shop for healthy food on a budget, and to read labels. Also includes tips and recipes from other seniors, many of whom are dealing with new ways of eating after learning they have a chronic illness.

Being the family member of someone in a nursing home is part of a difficult and painful process that begins long before a loved one enters the home. Focusing on the psychological, emotional, and social aspects of that process, this book gives family members important.

 

This second edition incorporates the new and baffling world of assisted living. It focuses on the psychological, emotional, and practical aspects of helping family members and seniors make a difficult transition.

 

The author offers eight crucial stages of caregiving and offers insight for successfully navigating each one. Providing invaluable advice and guidance, this book examines the arc of caregiving from the first signs of trouble. Included are countless resources and names of advocacy groups that are there to help even the most complicated of situations, many of which are underutilized.

 

This handbook offers suggestions for dealing with fatigue, anger, worry, finances and other practical matters alongside meditations on themes of hope, patience, service, love, appreciation and dozens of other vital issues. Provides a wealth of comforting, affirming thoughts in over 100 single-page reflections.

This handbook outlines all of the important topics and stages that caregivers will experience.

 

This handbook outlines all of the important topics and stages that caregivers will experience. Family caregivers were interviewed to gain a better understanding of the challenges they face and the rewards they experience.

 

This book helps readers through the pitfalls of caregiving - the emotional snarls and strains, daily struggles, competing needs, and questions about confronting pain. It provides hope and tangible suggestions on how to stay strong and sane while providing healthy support and love.

 

Brings insight to the process of communicating with a person who is chronically ill. This book offers guidelines that are easy to understand and a wealth of tips about what to say and do, as well as what to avoid saying and doing.

 

This book will be your guide to recognizing and dealing with swallowing problems before they become life-threatening.

 

This book provides thorough and substantive advice and information on the complete range of psychological, social, and financial issues that face those involved in caring for an older person. It includes sections on spiritual concerns, ethnicity, and self-neglect, as well as updated sections on conflict resolution in families, long distance caregivers, coping with physical changes, and the woman-in-the-middle who cares for both children and parents.

This helpbook is designed to provide caregivers with tools to increase self care and give them confidence in handling difficult situations, emotions and decisions.

 

Offers basic yet complete answers to questions about caregiving. It offers practical tips for many activities of daily living and the more complicated and stressful the situations a caregiver may face. It also includes a wide-ranging list of resources for further reading and study.

 

This book offers advice that is comprehensive and presented in a positive and energizing way. The book also provides guidance for the caregiver on work-life balance to help alleviate stress and anxiety.

 

This book takes you through the early days of caregiving to the emotions and emptiness when someone dies. It offers guidelines for such topics as what to ask doctors, what you'll need from a health care provider, rehabilitation terminology, long-distance caregiving, dealing with myriad emotions, and staying healthy yourself.

 

In this book, more than thirty caregivers in very diverse circumstances describe how they achieved the balance that allows long-term caregiving to be possible. Includes a CD recording of the public radio program "Hardship into Hope: The Rewards of Caregiving".

 

This book describes ten touchstones that are essential physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual actions for you to take to help yourself heal.