The Living Well with Dementia Handbook is a 24-page booklet created in the UK that allows you to include your or your loved one’s important information across five easy-to-co[...]
How to be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers, by Toni Bernhard, describes the author’s own journey from living in good health to living wi[...]
Actress and poet Judy Prescott draws her family together in this powerful tribute of artistry to her mom, Cecy. Searching for Cecy: Reflections on Alzheimer’s features twenty-nine [...]
Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love is really a how to manual to deal with your own and others’ grief. For starters, Norine Dresser and Fredda Wasserman’s Chapter 12: Su[...]
Which website has had over 1.5 billion visits since 1997 and helps patients and their families and friends more easily navigate a serious illness? Twitter? No. FaceBook? No. Caring[...]
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle's beautiful story of compassion and selfless love for her beloved husband, in Ten Thousand Joys &... Sorrows—Journey... Alzheimer's.[...]
WOW, Coming Home is a great how-to manual on caregiving toward the end of life. Author, Deborah Duda deals with troublesome issues with humor and common sense. She tells stories ab[...]
Death for Beginners: Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable is a practical book on a difficult subject. It is a valuable resource for anyone dealing wi[...]
I am sixty something and Mom is in her eighties and living with breast cancer. She has decided not to receive treatment. So far Mom has no pain and I am living with her to enjoy th[...]
The message of Your Legacy of Love: Realize the Gift in Goodbye became especially relevant to me last week after my nephew was in a freak accident that left him brain dead and on l[...]
Toward the end of my father’s life, he had difficulty chewing food and eventually swallowing. I didn’t know it then. One morning, while feeding him breakfast at the nursing home, I[...]
How does he do it? Trying to answer the following question prompts geriatric physician, Dr. David Dosa, on a quest. How does Oscar, an ordinary cat in a nursing home, know who is g[...]