"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 your abilities and resources. Being prepared to make decisions about care and housing in advance will help focus your energy on your loved one, help ease their transition from one living situation to another, and reduce your stress and worry."
"Caregiving is the most stressful job in the world, but you are not alone. Despite the fact that millions are caregivers, it is still hard to get the emotional support you need. Read this book and follow the simple checklists to learn how to:
- Cope with a diagnosis of dementia and prepare emotionally for the changes that will follow.
- Avoid caregiver burnout with strategies for maintaining emotional health.
- Identify risk factors and prevent or treat anxiety, depression, stress, anger, frustration, guilt, and other emotional effects of caregiving
- Effectively communicate with loved ones who have dementia.
- Tailor your caregiving strategies to your loved ones emotional needs.
If you have been diagnosed with dementia or are providing care to someone with dementia, you are not alone, although you often may feel that way when confronting this terrible illness. Don’t give up hope. Use the checklists in Coping with Dementia to protect yourself from the emotional effects of dealing with dementia and maintain your personal well-being in spite of everything."
"Things you need to do now!
Learn how to:
- Collect the information you need about your finances.
- Transfer wealth without delaying Medicaid.
- Sort through and choose from the different types of insurance.
- Draft a power of attorney and healthcare proxy.
- Create a living will and advance directives.
Learn what decisions are necessary when you or a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or any terminal illness. With the emotional weight of dealing with a terrible, terminal disease, these decisions can seem like too much to deal with. This audiobook helps you begin sorting these problems out and tackling them one by one using numerous checklists with easy-to-follow instructions for exactly what you need to do."
