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Caregivers
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A Caregiver's Survival Guide
How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick
Kay Marshall Strom
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(Forward by Joni Eareckson Tada)
When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs are often neglected. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experience and compassion to this important topic. She shows you how to
* find spiritual support
* maintain balanced relationships
* decide when caregiving at home is no longer possible
* work out your financial situation
* understand the impact of long-term caregiving on the whole family
* deal with your personal losses
Whether you are caring for an elderly parent, a spouse, an adult child or another family member or close friend, Strom's stories drawn from her own and othes' experiences will encourage and comfort you. And her practical ideas for how to meet your own needs for energy, patience, strength, wisdom, peace and creativity will carry you through many difficult days.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 153 |
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| Pub Date: | 7/2000 |
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Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul
Stories to Inspire Caregivers in the Home, the Community and the World
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A dose of inspiration for caregiving professionals and the millions of souls who help care for family and friends
Over 54 million people in America help care for ailing or recovering family members and friends and millions more give of themselves to others through day care, eldercare, emergency and community service.
While rewarding, care giving requires tremendous emotional, physical and spiritual stamina. Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul offers a respite to those who give care through inspiring and uplifting stories about the work they do and its power to transform lives.
Through awe-inspiring glimpses of real-life experiences of others, readers will find the motivation to overcome a challenging day, welcome recognition for their selfless contributions, and the encouragement to continue making a positive difference in others' lives.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 350 |
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| Pub Date: | 7/2004 |
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God's Heart - Your Hands
This One's For You, Caregiver
Laurie Zurinsky
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Through true confessions and earthy humor, this caregiver shares her story and the stories of others in daily readings that will encourage "at-homes" and professionals alike to press on in their arduous task of caregiving.
Rather than a "how-to" book, God's Heart--Your Hands is a "why-to" book that connects the heart to the task.
It presents real-life issues and Scripture-based solutions.
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| | Type: | book |
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| Format: | paperback |
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| Pages: | 240 |
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| Pub Date: | 2004 |
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Share The Care
How To Organize A Group to Care For Someone Who Is Seriously Ill
Cappy Capossela, Sheila Warnock
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YOU'RE NOT IN THIS 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. As you'll soon discover, the tasks will range from major ones--checking someone into the hospital, sorting out insurance coverage, keeping track of medications--to the minor: walking the dog, preparing a meal, or just being there for someone. If you're determined to help but you're feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities, Share The Care offers a sensible and loving solution: a unique group approach that can turn a circle of ordinary people into a powerful caregiver team. Share The Care shows you how to:- Create a caregiver "family" from friends, real family members, 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
- Find the people who care, discover their hidden talents, make the most of their resources, cope with group issues, and stay together in the face of adversity.
Here are valuable guidelines, compassionate suggestions and a simple-to-use workbook section that together offer support to help 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?"
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 348 |
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| Pub Date: | 2004 |
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Spiritual Care
A Guide for Caregivers
Judith Allen Shelly
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What did I do to deserve cancer?
I don't understand it, but I can't seem to pray anymore. Why does God seem so far away?
The idea of dying scares me. How can I cope?
What do you say to a person in crisis? When illness or tragedy strikes, you may find yourself caring for a family member, friend or neighbor who asks you for answers to some of life's ultimate questions. How can you meet these deep spiritual needs?
This personal and practical book deals with the difficult issues and sensitive situations that caregivers often confront. Judy Shelly explains how to offer spiritual support to those facing suffering, illness or other crises.
Shelly considers a variety of suggestions caregivers can put into action, including Christian community, compassionate presence, prayer, Scripture, books, touch and music. In addition, she explains and evaluates alternative therapies that have become popular in the health care and counseling fields. And finally, she reminds caregivers of the need to care for themselves, offering suggestions for finding rest, advice and encouragement.
Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers is a classic resource book that is now completely rewritten for all caregivers (not just medical professionals and pastors). Here is the guide that will help you meet the spiritual needs of those you love with grace, skill and genuine hope.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 180 |
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| Pub Date: | 2000 |
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The Fearless Caregiver
How to Get the Best Care for Your Loved One and Still Have a Life of Your Own
Gary Barg
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| | Type: | book |
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| Format: | paperback |
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| Pages: | 264 |
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| Pub Date: | 8/2003 |
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The Twenty-Third Psalm for Caregivers
Carmen Leal
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In an often thankless and unending job, The Twenty-Third Psalm for Caregivers is a welcome reminder that caregivers are not alone. The Shepherd sees, leads, and empowers caregivers and will restore their weary souls.
Each verse of Psalm 23 is the subject for a topical chapter, addressing caregivers felt needs. Fifteen disease generic true-life stories about caregivers teach while they entertain, inspire, and draw the reader to God. The Scriptures and accompanying quotations and classic hymns show how a relationship with the Lord, who is our Shepherd, can meet the caregiver's need for care, provision, rest, peace, hope, direction, patience, courage, friendship, comfort, protection, healing, blessings, love, and joy.
The Twenty-Third Psalm for Caregivers offers a new perspective on this familiar psalm, and after reading the book, caregivers will have renewed hope that the Shepherd will provide for their families in every way. The only promise the book makes is that God will be with them in their care-giving journey; and that's a powerful promise.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Hardcover |
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| Pages: | 91 |
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| Pub Date: | 2004 |
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Pregnancy / Childbirth
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Baby Boot Camp
Basic Training for the First Six Weeks of Motherhood
Rebecca Ingram Powell
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 176 |
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| Pub Date: | 2004 |
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The New Baby
Mercer Mayer
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This "Little Critter" book will help your youngsters understand some things as they become a big brother or sister.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pub Date: | 1983 |
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What to Expect When Mommys Having a Baby
Heidi Murkoff
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| | Type: | book |
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| Format: | paperback |
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| Pages: | 24 |
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| Pub Date: | 2004 |
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
Eisenberg, Murkoff, Hathaway
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The now-classic pregnancy guide, in which the authors lead expectant mothers (and fathers) month-by-month through the pregnancy process, offering a wealth of information, and also responding to readers' queries about issues both physical and emotional., This third edition of the classic month-by-month pregnancy guide has been updated to include coverage of new medical developments, more information on the challenges of working while pregnant, information about nontraditional families, a section on second pregnancies, and more complete coverage of alternative birthing plans. Illustrated with b&w drawings.
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| | Type: | book |
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| Format: | paperback |
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| Pages: | 597 |
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| Pub Date: | 2002 |
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Death / Grief
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Don't Take My Grief Away
What to Do When You Lose a Loved One
Doug Manning
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A warm, consoling, practical guidance to help the bereaved cope with emotions, confront decisions, and learn to live again.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 129 |
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| Pub Date: | 1984 |
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How Do We Tell the Children?
A Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Children Two to Teen Cope When Someone Dies
Christine Lyons, Dan Schaefer
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This book provides a step-by-step guide to helping children deal with the death of a friend or family member. The authors present different guidelines based on the age of the child. Co-author Dan Schaeffer is a former funeral director who supplies specific instructions on dealing with funeral ceremonies, such as what to expect and what to say when adults express their regret. The authors advocate honesty and avoiding the use of euphemisms ("gone on a long vacation" or "asleep") when telling a child about a death. These and the other guidelines of this generous book can take the agonizing guesswork out of the issue, ensuring that this painful passage of life can be spiritually and psychologically enriching rather than damaging.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 203 |
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| Pub Date: | 2002 |
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Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers
How to Cope With Losing Someone You Love
Earl Grollman
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If you are a teenager whose friend or relative has died, this book was written for you. It discusses:
- normal reactions to the shock of death, including disbelief, anger, panic, and loneliness
- how grief can affect your relationships with family, friends, and classmates
- how participating in a funeral can help
- surviving birthdays and anniversaries
- how you can work through your grief and begin to live again
Also included is a journal section where you can record your memories of the person who died, your feelings about the loss, and your hopes for the future.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Hardcover |
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| Pages: | 146 |
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| Pub Date: | 1993 |
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Long Term Care
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Share My Lonesome Valley
The Slow Grief of Long-Term Care
Doug Manning
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ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, AIDS, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson's disease. . .the list of terminal or debilitating illnesses goes on. The one thing that all of these diseases have in common is that almost every patient has a person who is acting as a primary caregiver. Long-term care means the caregiver is busy, overwhelmed and tired with very little opportunity to realize or reconcile the gradual losses that take place. This takes a toll on the caregiver, the family and the patient. Doug outlines the dangers and issues and gently provides opportunities for the caregiver to deal with the "quiet sorrows" that make this type of caregiving a difficult task.
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| | Type: | Book |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Pages: | 113 |
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