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  • While They're Still Here While They're Still Here
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    While They're Still Here

    After a lifetime of strained bonds with her aging parents, Patricia Williams finds herself in the unexpected position of being their caregiver and neighbor. As they all begin to navigate this murky battleground, the long-buried issues that have divided...
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  • Dementia and Alzheimer Caregiver's Survival Guide Dementia and Alzheimer Caregiver's Survival Guide
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    Dementia and Alzheimer Caregiver's Survival Guide

    This empowering guide offers compassionate, experience-informed support for caregivers facing the often-overwhelming realities of Alzheimer's and dementia. Written by Dr. Ogechi Hope, a dedicated Registered Nurse, Certified Case Manager, and Doctor of...
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  • DEMENTIA DENIED DEMENTIA DENIED
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    DEMENTIA DENIED

    A True Medical Mystery Memoir That Dares to Ask: What if the mind wasn't lost-just waiting to be heard?Diagnosed with terminal dementia. Bedbound. Hallucinating. Given just weeks to live. Everyone believed Ginger Smith's story was over. They were wrong...
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    Next Years Best Years

    Next Years Best Years is a compelling new resource you can turn to time and again to help you begin or move to the next level of the emotional and practical aspects of this inevitable, though often poorly understood, life transition-which may represent a...
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  • Your Retirement Your Retirement
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    Your Retirement

    Despite our best planning efforts, the sad reality is that the current system of retirement planning in America ends up in failure for as many as 70 percent of our nation's retirees.What does retirement failure look like? Author, radio host, and...
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  • Health Care of the Aged Health Care of the Aged
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    Health Care of the Aged

    Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. From various perspectives, this new book will help shape the...
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  • Housing Decisions in Later Life Housing Decisions in Later Life
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    Housing Decisions in Later Life

    This book examines the processes by which older people make housing decisions and the impact such decisions have on the construction of their lives. Evidence is included from a major three-year research study, where older people told stories of their...
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    Ageing in Place in Urban Environments

    Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other.
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  • Dignity and Old Age Dignity and Old Age
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    Dignity and Old Age

    Open up Dignity and Old Age, and you'll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life. You'll examine the word...
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  • Geriatric Physical Diagnosis Geriatric Physical Diagnosis
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    Geriatric Physical Diagnosis

    Informed by more than thirty years of experience, this guide provides a wealth of insight into the clinical observation, diagnosis and treatment of elderly patients. Organized geographically from (literally) head to toes, it concentrates on the basic...
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  • I'm Ralph, I'm Dad I'm Ralph, I'm Dad
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    I'm Ralph, I'm Dad

    Ralph Wood was diagnosed with dementia, and over the ensuing years his daughter, a medical doctor, along with other close family members, walked that journey beside him.Through poems, drawings and brief comments, I'm Ralph, I'm Dad lovingly tells the...
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  • Fear of Crime Among the Elderly Fear of Crime Among the Elderly
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    Fear of Crime Among the Elderly

    This multimethod study of crime and the elderly in a small-town setting approaches the related issues from varied perspectives and ultimately presents a different picture of fear of crime among the elderly than that which dominates the current literature...
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  • Transnational Aging Transnational Aging
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    Transnational Aging

    This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels...
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  • Religious Literacy in Hospice Care Religious Literacy in Hospice Care
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    Religious Literacy in Hospice Care

    This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically, it considers the significant place that spiritual care has in hospice care and claims that the changing role of religion and belief in...
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  • Werner's Syndrome and Human Aging Werner's Syndrome and Human Aging
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    Werner's Syndrome and Human Aging

    In keeping with the traditions of deve1opmenta1 bio1ogy and geronto1ogy, there was a long incubation period before fu11 expres­ sion of the plans for an International Conference on the Werner Syndrome and the pub1ication of the...
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  • Clinical Disorders of Memory Clinical Disorders of Memory
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    Clinical Disorders of Memory

    Memory is essential for the retention of learning. In the presence of memory deficits, new learning is impaired and performance of previously learned habits deteriorates. What is the nature of memory? Where does it reside in...
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  • Contemporary Geriatric Medicine Contemporary Geriatric Medicine
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    Contemporary Geriatric Medicine

    This volume marks the first of a new series, Contemporary Geriatric Medicine, joining the ever growing "Contemporary" family. As with the other "Contem­ porary" volumes, our goal is to assist the reader in maintaining currency...
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  • The Genetics of Aging The Genetics of Aging
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    The Genetics of Aging

    The Genetics of Aging is divided into several sections in an attempt to provide a logical progression from the level of the genome to the realm of human genetics. The relationship between the genetic material and aging will be...
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  • Clinical Cases in Geriatric Dermatology Clinical Cases in Geriatric Dermatology
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    Clinical Cases in Geriatric Dermatology

    This concise practical guide is designed to facilitate the clinical decision-making process by reviewing a number of cases and defining the various diagnostic and management decisions open to clinicians. It is richly ...
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  • Centers for Ending Centers for Ending
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    Centers for Ending

    Series Foreword by Rosalynn Carter.- Foreword by Saul B. Cohen.- Themes of the Book.- Becoming a Resident in a Total Care Facility.- Residents as Immigrants.- Some Aspects of Organizational Craziness.- Two Months in the Nursing Home.- Planning Programs:...
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  • Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality
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    Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality

    This book addresses important issues of ageing and spirituality and reflects on the impact of culture on both constructs. It includes excerpts of cultural impact on spirituality from New Zealand, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, Australia and the United...
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  • Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing
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    Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing

    Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing is a practical guide that shows you how to make retirement successful, based on the most up-to-date research available. It encourages a deeper and wider view of retirement and reveals how retirement can be a time...
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  • Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging
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    Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging

    Since the 1971 White House Conference on Aging in the United States, the need to move from religiosity into new areas such as Spiritual Assessment and Spirituality has emerged. This movement has picked up momentum among scholars, particularly in terms of...
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    Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations

    This book offers a unique multigenerational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears overwhelm hopes for Social Security's future prospects. Conservatives want to privatize operations that liberals...
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  • Dementia and Aging Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Dementia and Aging Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
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    Dementia and Aging Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

    This definitive handbook assembles the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities. Diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and management and care practices...
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  • Gerontological Social Work and COVID-19 Gerontological Social Work and COVID-19
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    Gerontological Social Work and COVID-19

    The novel coronavirus and the resultant COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected older adults in terms of the number of lives lost, concerns about safety of institutional and home and community-based care, the impact of isolation and seclusion,...
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  • Is There Any Ice Cream? Is There Any Ice Cream?
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    Is There Any Ice Cream?

    In 2018, the Alzheimer Society of Canada website showed over half a million people in Canada were living with dementia. That same year, the Alzheimer Association website reported that over 5.7 million in the US were living with a form of memory loss...
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  • Sexuality and Aging Sexuality and Aging
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    Sexuality and Aging

    Despite continuing ageist beliefs that sexuality is a privilege designed only for the young and physically healthy, research continues to indicate that the majority of older adults maintain interest in sexuality and may engage in fulfilling sexual...
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  • Ageing of the Oppressed Ageing of the Oppressed
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    Ageing of the Oppressed

    Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms."
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  • Spiritual Care Spiritual Care
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    Spiritual Care

    It is now widely known that the rapid advancement of modern medicine was achieved with little regard for the spiritual thresholds associated with illness and aging. In this book Judith Allen Shelly seeks to reverse this trend by familiarizing caregivers...
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  • Budgeting for Public Managers Budgeting for Public Managers
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    Budgeting for Public Managers

    Benefiting from the authors' many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners, here is a clear, comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. Rather than presenting each budgeting concern in mind-numbing...
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  • Serving the Elderly Serving the Elderly
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    Serving the Elderly

    Broadly speaking there are two kinds of professional practice skills relevant to the burgeoning field of gerontological human service: clinical modalities and macro strategies. This book identifies seven essential approaches to clinical gerontology,...
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  • Aging Families in Chinese Society Aging Families in Chinese Society
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    Aging Families in Chinese Society

    Aging Families in Chinese Society focuses on the accelerated social and demographic changes in China and examines their implications for family care and support for older adults.
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  • The Becoming of Age The Becoming of Age
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    The Becoming of Age

    The Becoming of Age is an examination of the ways that aging and old age are represented in popular film. Arguing that the ideas behind cinematic depictions of aging are historical and open to revision, the author looks at how movies both promote...
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  • Caregiver Defined Caregiver Defined
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    Caregiver Defined

    Are you a caregiver who would appreciate a little boost for the hard work you do? Or, are you a caring family member or friend of a caregiver whom you want to acknowledge and support?  Caregiver Defined is a beautifully illustrated, inspirational...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing
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    The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing

    Ageing populations pose some of the foremost global challenges of this century. Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing.Structured in seven...
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  • Facing Alzheimer's and Dementia Head On Facing Alzheimer's and Dementia Head On
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    Facing Alzheimer's and Dementia Head On

    We are two retired RNs who took care of our husbands with Alzheimer's and Brain Injury Dementia at home. This book is designed to help you through all parts of your journey, explaining what is happening in your loved one's brain as the changes occur. We...
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  • Researching Later Life and Ageing Researching Later Life and Ageing
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    Researching Later Life and Ageing

    This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas.
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    The Millenium Caregiver
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    The Millenium Caregiver

    For most people, their twenties and thirties are the busiest times of their life, a period of new careers, new friends, new cities, new families. What few count on is that they might also be called to additional responsibilities as caregivers of parents,...
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  • Laughter in Caregiving Laughter in Caregiving
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    Laughter in Caregiving

    Being a caregiver can be exhausting, frustrating, and stressful. Caregivers often sacrifice their own lives to meet the needs of others. This book aims to uplift caregivers, reminding them they're not alone. It approaches challenges with a light-hearted...
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  • The Complete Guide to Understanding Dementia for Beginners The Complete Guide to Understanding Dementia for Beginners
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    The Complete Guide to Understanding Dementia for Beginners

    Navigating the complexities of dementia can be overwhelming for both those diagnosed and their loved ones.The Complete Guide to Understanding Dementia is an essential resource that demystifies this condition with clarity, compassion, and practical advice...
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  • Coming of Age at the Focal Point Coming of Age at the Focal Point
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    Coming of Age at the Focal Point

    Age does not mean that a person no longer has any value. In Coming of Age at the Focal Point: How Senior Centers Enhance Quality of Life for Older Adults, author, Dr. Althia Ellis, reveals the challenges that older adults face that can potentially...
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  • Life with a Demented Drama Queen Life with a Demented Drama Queen
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    Life with a Demented Drama Queen

    Heart-wrenching and laugh-out-loud funny account of Kayce Lassiter's efforts to care for an aging deaf mother sliding into the darkness of dementia in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.How had this become my life? When had my previously almost magical...
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