Meals, Rides, and Caregivers

Meals, Rides, and Caregivers
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2011
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Cancer Caregivers

Cancer Caregivers
Author: Allison J. Applebaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190868589

Informal caregivers - family members, friends, and other loved ones - are an essential, uncompensated and significantly burdened extension of the healthcare team. Rapid advances in cancer care, including new drugs and immunotherapies and more sophisticated diagnostic tools, have markedly improved the ability to medically extend lives and enhance survival. As patients are living longer, with today's shorter hospital stays and shift towards increased outpatient care, however, the demands placed on all caregivers and their needs have substantially increased. Cancer Caregivers reveals the field of Psycho-Oncology's exploration of the depth of complexities of caregiving experiences and identifies the vast expanses left to be understood. This text describes the characteristics and experiences of cancer caregivers based on their life stage, relationship to the patient, and ethnic group membership, as well as patients' disease and treatment type. It highlights the significant progress in research focused on the development and dissemination of psychosocial interventions for cancer caregivers, and includes in-depth case studies to illustrate their delivery and application. The text also explores the provision of support to caregivers in the community and the legal and ethical concerns faced by caregivers throughout the caregiving process. Cancer Caregivers offers both fundamental and practical information and is the essential resource for all healthcare professionals who work with patients and families facing cancer.

The Caregiving Trap

The Caregiving Trap
Author: Pamela D. Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781630475352

"The Caregiving Trap" combines the authentic life and professional experience of Pamela D. Wilson, who provides recommendations for overwhelmed and frustrated caregivers who themselves may one day need care. "The Caregiving Trap" includes stories about Pamela's actual personal and professional experience along with end of chapter exercises to support caregivers. Common caregiving issues include: A sense of duty and obligation to provide care that damages family relationships Emotional and financial challenges resulting in denial of care needs Ignorance of predictive events that result in situations of crises or harm Delayed decision making and lack of planning resulting in limited choices Minimum standards of care supporting the need for advocacy

Juggling Life, Work, and Caregiving

Juggling Life, Work, and Caregiving
Author: Amy Goyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781634251631

One in four American adult face the challenges of caring for an adult friend or relative. Although caregiving can be a richly rewarding and joyful experience, the role comes with enormous responsibilities-- and pressures. This gentle guide provides practical resources and tips that are easy to find when you need them, whether you're caregiving day to day, planning for future needs, or in the middle of a crisis. Goyer offers insight, inspiration, and poignant stories and experiences of caregivers, including her own as a live-in caregiver for her parents.

Caregiver's Handbook

Caregiver's Handbook
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1465417443

The Caregiver's Handbook is a definitive guide to caring for a sick or disabled person of any age. Whether it be adults looking after parents, partners looking after each other, parents looking after children, or young caregivers looking after their parents, the Caregiver's Handbook addresses both the needs of the caregiver, and person who needs care. The Caregiver's Handbook offers emotional support and practical advice on a wide range of topics, enabling individuals to provide the best care possible-whatever the requirements. Everyday concerns, including healthy eating, personal care, and rest and sleep, are addressed alongside topics such as safe movement and handling, choosing the right stability aids, or even how to maneuver a wheelchair for the first time. Features also include a look at how either at the needs of the caregiver, or how the requirement of specific conditions-such as dementia or physical impairment-can affect the way a task can be approached. The Caregiver's Handbook is a comprehensive, compassionate, and indispensable resource that all caregivers will want to have on hand at all times - it is essential reading for anyone caring for someone at home.

The Caregiver's Tale

The Caregiver's Tale
Author: Ann Burack-Weiss
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2006-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231510772

Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering of one's priorities, and a changed view of the world. The Caregiver's Tale offers insight and comfort to individuals caring for a loved one and is a valuable resource for all health care professionals. Identifying common themes, Burack-Weiss describes how the illness career and social meaning of cancer, dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and chemical dependence affect the caregiving experience. She applies the same method to an examination of family roles: parents caring for ailing children, couples and siblings caring for one another, and adult children caring for aging parents. Jamaica Kincaid, Sue Miller, Paul Monette, Kenzaburo Oë, and Philip Roth are among the many authors who share their caregiving stories. Burack-Weiss provides an annotated bibliography of the more than one hundred memoirs and an accompanying chart to help readers locate those of greatest interest to them.

Share the Care

Share the Care
Author: Cappy Capossela
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-11-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780743262682

You Don't Have to Do It Alone Whether you're prepared for it or not, chances are you'll take on the role of caregiver when a family member or friend is affected by a serious illness or injury, or when you find your elderly parent needs help. As you'll soon discover, the range of tasks and responsibilities involved are overwhelming. Share The Care offers a sensible and loving solution: a unique group approach that can turn a circle of ordinary people into a powerful caregiving team. Share the Care shows you how to: —Create a caregiver "family" from friends, real family members, neighbors, coworkers, and acquaintances. —Hold a meeting to organize your group, and introduce members to the Share The Care systems that guarantee every job will be done and no one person will have to do too much. —Discover the hidden talents within the group, make the most of their resources, cope with group issues, and stay together in the face of adversity. Included here are valuable guidelines, compassionate suggestions, and a simple-to-use workbook section that together offer support to free the patient from worry and the caregivers from burnout. Share the Care offers friends and family the best answer ever to the frequently asked question "What can I do?"

One Caregiver's Journey

One Caregiver's Journey
Author: Eleanor Gaccetta
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Are you a caregiver or about to become a caregiver? If so, One Caregiver's Journey is a MUST read. This book is a snapshot into the realities of the challenges and changes of being a sole caregiver over a period of a decade. It is a treasure trove of stories, information, and suggestions to make caregiving less of a challenge. One moment you will be laughing, and the next you will be reaching for a tissue. It is a journal and an honest look at the rewards and hardships of the author's experience. Being a sole caregiver and living in virtual isolation until her mother's passing, the author openly shares her experiences of reintegrating back into a world that had passed her by after a decade. Learn the obstacles she navigated with driving through town, eating in restaurants, to movie theaters, to shopping in the mall after a 10-year hiatus. Reading this book, you will feel as though you are in the author's living room as she tells her story.

Caregiver's Guide

Caregiver's Guide
Author: Sharon E. Hohler
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-11-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0786488336

Every year, 65 million people give care to their frail, ailing, or disabled loved ones. Whether caregiving begins with a crisis or builds gradually, spouses, adult children, parents with sick children, even children themselves who care for parents and grandparents can find themselves struggling to navigate the often-confusing medical world while neglecting their own health and well-being. How can caregivers care for themselves when they are consumed with tending to someone else? This indispensible guide offers the information, support, and resources needed to achieve this difficult balance. In addition to advice on maintaining one's own health and relieving stress, topics include medical terms and procedures, tips for doctor visits, ways to avoid mistakes in medicines, safety around the home, and the most common health problems. A list of resources and samples of important medical documents complete this essential manual.

The Comfort of Home

The Comfort of Home
Author: Maria M. Meyer
Publisher: CareTrust Publications
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780966476798

Offers advice on how to become a primary caregiver for someone who is chronically ill, disabled, or elderly, ranging from guidelines on home preparations to instructions for body mechanics.