The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey
The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey

Author: Denise M. Brown

Publisher: Tad Publishing & Consulting Company

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780578006895

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The Caregiving Years helps you answer these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? The stages describe how you'll feel as you care for a family member with a chronic illness. Through the stages, you'll find what you need so that you can be manage today and prepare for your tomorrow. You'll also follow the journey of two family caregivers through the six stages. Reader reviews: Absolutely terrific. You really have captured the stages well, very very well...This is a fabulous resource for caregivers. Your book, The Caregiving Years, helped me enormously. It would have saved me substantial stress had I had it at the beginning of these fours years of 24-hours a day caregiving to my husband! THANK YOU! It is a masterpiece and I've recommended it for other hard-pressed caregivers and those who are about to become 'and dread it'. I tell them if they are armed with the knowledge and know-how from this book, they will be enabled to handle it.

Families Caring for an Aging America
Families Caring for an Aging America

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0309448093

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Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Patient Safety and Quality
Patient Safety and Quality

Author: Ronda Hughes

Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

The Caregiving Years
The Caregiving Years

Author: Denise M Brown

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-05-22

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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The Caregiving Years helps you find your answers to these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? While other books focus on your family member or friend who needs your help and care, this book focuses just on you and what you need to manage the experience of caregiving. The handbook, now in its ninth edition, helps you feel better about your todays while helping you understand what you'll need for your tomorrows. You'll read what caregiving is really like but you'll also see that you will make it through. The last stage, The Godspeed Caregiver, nudges you to live your dream, a dream newly defined by your caregiving experience. The caregiving experience begins when you expect to care for a family member and ends about two years after caregiving ends. Because caregiving can be such a complicated experience, the handbook provides simple coping strategies, wrapped in a keyword and a purpose, to help in each stage. You carry each coping strategy into the next stage so you are armed with empowering tools. Each stage also includes action plans to guide you. The handbook tells the story of a family caregiver throughout the stages, as well as offers tips to help you navigate the bad days, the difficult decisions and the overwhelming emotions. You'll find articles which offer suggestions to give you courage when you venture out of the house after staying inside for too long, exercises to help you understand your limits and build your team, and quizzes to make you laugh, reset your perspective and remind you that you have solutions. The handbook will prompt you to be proactive so you'll be as ready as you can for what's next, and will show you how to create memories which will comfort you later. Readers say: "A masterpiece." "Absolutely terrific. You really have captured the stages well, very very well... This is a fabulous resource for caregivers." Denise originally developed the stages of caregiving in 1997 and regularly revises the concept and its insights to ensure its relevances for today's family caregivers. She presents the workshop, The Caregiving Years, at conferences in the United States and Canada.

The Caregiving Years
The Caregiving Years

Author: Denise M. Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-27

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781720425144

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"The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey" helps you answer these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? While other books focus on your family member or friend who needs your help and care, this book focuses just on you and what you need to manage the experience of caregiving. The handbook, now in its eighth edition, helps you feel better about your todays while understanding what you'll need for your tomorrows. You'll read what caregiving is really like but you'll also see that you will make it through. The last stage, The Godspeed Caregiver, nudges you to live your dream, a dream newly defined by your caregiving experience. "The Caregiving Years" is separated into six stages, beginning when you expect to care for a family member and ending about two years after caregiving ends. Because caregiving can be such a complicated experience, the handbook provides simple coping strategies, wrapped in a keyword and a purpose, to help in each stages. You carry each coping strategy into the next stage so you are armed with empowering tools. Each stage also includes action plans to guide you. The handbook tells the story of a family caregiver throughout the stages, as well as offers tips to help you navigate the bad days, the difficult decisions and the overwhelming emotions. You'll find articles which offer suggestions to give you courage when you venture out of the house after staying inside for too long, exercises to help you understand your limits and build your team, and quizzes to make you laugh, reset your perspective and remind you that you have solutions. The handbook will prompt you to be proactive so you'll be as ready as you can for what's next, and will show you how to create memories which will comfort you later.

Years of Free Caregiving
Years of Free Caregiving

Author: Emalene Wilcox

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2020-12-02

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1644685280

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There are many phases to free caregiving, and each one is different. You do it for various reasons-some because of love; some for reward, not monetary but for the satisfaction that you have helped someone; and others the obligation or necessity to do it. I was involved from age ten to ninety, just one among the forty-three million in the United States today, in giving care. I am now almost ninety-five, living in a nice assisted living facility, and the recipient of care myself. I wrote this book to reveal how I was able to cope, always trying to maintain a sense of humor and a positive attitude. It requires patience, prayer, and push.

Caregiving: Our Labor of Love
Caregiving: Our Labor of Love

Author: John Patterson

Publisher: Inspiring Voices

Published: 2016-05-04

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 146241138X

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Caregiving: Our Labor of Love is the definitive caregiving experience. This experience took almost seven years to live through. This is a detailed account of that experience. In the next ten years, over 70 million souls will enter the caregiving experience for not only them but their families as well. This level of expectation is just within the United States alone. The United States government is pushing for in-home healthcare in these approaching years. For the numbers and figures that Ive listed, you can go to this website for verification. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK43619/ Let me just say that you amaze me what a good writer you are! I really believe that God has anointed you to write this for such a time as this and is going to use it mightily to help others. Mary Ann Gillespie of OurPrayer.org. Look for our company in late 2015 or early 2016 to be online. Google us by our logo. Our Company: We are a small but growing company with big plans for the future. We plan to not only help but empower the families that are going through their caregiving experiences. We have the knowledge, capability, and desire to encourage you to have the best possible caregiving experience you can have. No longer will you have to feel like you are struggling through your caregiving experience alone. We went through our experiences, and we know what is ahead of you in your experience. We know what worked for us and what didnt. Allow us to share our successes with you so that you and your family can benefit from our knowledge. We hope to bless and touch the lives of millions of families.

The Caregiving Years
The Caregiving Years

Author: Schultz Cynthia

Publisher: Acer Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780864312815

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Constant pressure on caregivers who are supporting family members can undermine their health and well-being. This book sympathetically addresses these problems and provides practical advice around topics such as overcoming the sense of burden, coping with stress, living with loss and developing better communication.

My Caregiving Journal
My Caregiving Journal

Author: Denise Brown

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-06-08

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781500123482

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Tired of staring at a blank sheet of paper? Bloated by negative emotions that won't go away? In "My Caregiving Journal," you tell the story of how you care for a family member or friend through a three-word journaling technique. Your journal exercises offer suggestions and ideas to keep your writing flowing and your negative emotions leaving. Your journal also captures your caregiving story, which can be liberating to tell and healing to move past. Each week, you'll be directed to write about an experience or an emotion. The next week, you'll receive three words to write about, which can help you find the next level of your story. The prompts are flexible so write in any way that feels right. Readers say: "I received and started 'My Caregiving Journal' and would like you to know it is amazing." "I want to express my deepest gratitude for the gift of 'My Caregiving Journal.' Glancing through the book, it is just what the doctor ordered."