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T'S NOT YOU! ITS ME! Is a 19 chapter guide to understanding the complexities of relationships, which cover well know stages of relationships such as the Romance Stage, The Power Struggle Stage, The Stability Stage, The Commitment Stage, The Co-Creation or Bliss Stage, and Endings.
IT'S NOT YOU! ITS ME! Is more than just another relationship book. This particular offering is an excellent guide to understand the complexities of relationships that's...
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Don Jaime, a sus ochenta años, debe dar un paso fuera de sus planes: mudarse a la casa de su hijo, su nuera y sus nietos. Nadie estaba a gusto con esto, pero la situación los obligó a aceptar al nuevo huésped. Lo que ninguno imaginó es que esta decisión cambiaría radicalmente la vida de todos.Héroes entre nosotros es un viaje revelador al mundo de nuestros adultos mayores. Nos brinda herramientas indispensables para entender y amar a nuestros...
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Today, more than two million Australians are over 70 years of age; by the year 2050 seniors are likely to make up almost 30 percent of the population. The implications of this are not just political; they are very personal. At some stage in life, most of us will help an elderly friend, parent, partner, relative or spouse make important decisions about their health and wellbeing, housing, care, finances, legal affairs and end of life care.
This book...
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Insights on Caring for Any Aging Parent• Timely guidance for the challenges• Encouragement for the journeyYou had plans for this time in your life, but now a parent needs care. It's a confusing, stressful, and exhausting time. But it can also be a time of remarkable spiritual growth. Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you navigate your role as caregiver with God's grace and guidance. And it alerts you to the difficult issues...
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Moments of Glad Grace is a moving and witty memoir of aging, familial love, and the hunt for roots and belonging. The story begins as a trip from Canada to Ireland in search of genealogical data and documents. Being 80 and in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease, Joe invites his daughter Alison to come along as his research assistant, which might have worked very well had she any interest - any at all - in genealogy.
Very quickly, the father-daughter...
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Being a grandparent...
...is the highlight of your golden years.
But how can you make the most of this time and leave a legacy for generations to come?
With the help of their children, their spouses, and twenty-two grandchildren, Winston and Linda Egan have written this guide to show you how you can build close, loving relationships in your family while creating memories that last forever. In this book, you'll discover:
• Unique and exciting...
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Older adults require living arrangements tailored to their personal needs and wishes, which often change over time. This poses ongoing challenges to you as a caregiver. To help you face these head-on, this book provides information about services and facilities that may prove beneficial to your aging loved one. We explore independence, comfort, and safety issues to help you make an informed decision that balances your loved one's best interest with...
68) Hollin Clough
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Jen admires her father and Frank believes that his daughters are happy, but no one in any family knows the whole story.
This family has fractured before, and been patched up by secrets and evasions.
Now things are about to change.
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The bond between grandparents and grandchildren is very unique and truly special, and it is never more evident than on the pages of this wonderfully endearing picture book. Author Debbie Daniele drew on her own experience as a wife, mother, and now grandmother to pen As I Grow Up and You Grow Down, skillfully capturing the wonder and beauty of the multi-generational relationship and its role in the development of a child's character. This uncomplicated...
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A veces, el momento de lajubilación y el envejecimiento de nuestros padres provoca que estos se abandonen, se encierren en sí mismos o se muestren agresivos. ¿Cómo acompañarlos con calma en esta etapa, cuando se reconsidera el papel de cada uno en la familia? ¿Cómo encontrar el equilibrio adecuado, sin sacrificios inútiles ni culpabilidad excesiva? Este libro nos aporta las claves para comprender tanto sus reacciones como las nuestras, y actuar...
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Hola, esta es una nueva historia de Sir David El Trovador, esta vez quise hacer un libro que para mí es muy difícil de escribir. Mi madre está muriendo en un hogar de ancianos en California. Consideren que es un infierno conducir desde Ciudad Canguro (Salt Lake City) ya que aquí en Australia estamos en una isla y tendría que conducir mi auto realmente rápido sobre el agua para poder llegar hasta California. Lo he estado pensando mucho y francamente...
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A quick-to-use resource for first-time parents on why newborns don't take baths, why one should burp their baby, why a newborn has constant gas, and much more!
Most new parents approach their upcoming adventure with mixed feelings of excitement and trepidation. There are so many questions that seem to be unanswered about their newborns and toddlers.
Wouldn't it be great to have a book that helps answer those questions-especially the medically-based...
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Sister Mary Threadgold is founder of Sonas, an organization promoting a positive attitude to aging. Her book highlights the five areas of life that correspond to human need, namely the physical, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. She looks at issues that arise in later life in each of these areas and at possible ways of coping with these difficulties. Each section ends with a way of relating these issues to Christian thinking.
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Complacent, self-made millionaire Scott Northwood wakes up one morning to discover he's been given the ability to extend the lives of people who are about to die just when they are on the verge of achieving something important.
But there's a catch-he must shorten his own lifespan by an equivalent amount of time.
Scott plunges into a moral and emotional maelstrom as his desire to live out his own comfortable life collides with a growing sense...
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Synopsis: Look to the Hills is the first book of The West Hope Trilogy, which takes place in the beautiful green hills of Pennsylvania where "life hasn't changed much and there is little desire to see any change come." These folks have found a satisfactory contentment in lifelong friendships, except most of those loved ones are "passing on," leaving a group of elderly ladies quite lonely as they look up for the help that comes from the Lord. City...
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Senior Transitions 101 is more than just a comprehensive handbook for navigating senior care options. It's also a source of support and understanding for the caregiver.
With clarity, compassion, and practicality, Dr. Amy Arp gently guides you through every challenge you might encounter as your parent or loved one grows older.
You'll learn how to:
• Manage caregiver stress before it leads to burnout
• Organize your loved one's affairs without...
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Megan Riley is a young girl growing up in a big family and a big world. Her story takes you on a journey with twists and turns you may not expect, and it opens the doors of her soul. She reveals who she really is, what she sees and experiences, when it all started, where she has been on her journey, how she overcame her nightmares and obstacles, and why she is sharing her story with the world. Using a form of poetry known as spoken word, this story...
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Never give up on a wish for a happy ever after...
Callie Derbyshire has it all: her dream job as a carer at Bay View, finally she has found the love of her life. Everything is perfect.
Well, almost.
Ex-partners are insistent on stirring up trouble, and Callie's favorite resident, Ruby, hasn't been her usual self.
But after discovering the truth about Ruby's lost love, Callie is determined to give Ruby's romantic story the happy ending it deserves....
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The journey of self-care and spousal care as portrayed in this non-fiction story is thoughtful, intelligent and questioning. It is like a dialogue about a stage in life and disease that is occurring in many households. The ability to articulate the feelings, facts and relationship creates a rich texture of life. The author seamlessly entwines the love story of a couple whose relationship is tested and redefined by dementia with the raw, earnest insights...
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