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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"After getting her master's in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper took a leave of absence from school and began to look after a Holocaust survivor with middle-stage Alzheimer's. For a year, she lived with the emotional strain of caregiving, learning at firsthand how disorienting and painful it can be to look after a person whose condition blatantly disregards the rules of time, order, and continuity. Based on the subsequent decade she has spent counseling...
Author
Publisher
et alia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As a palliative care and hospice physician, Dr. Bob Lehmberg's experience with mortality was primarily professional. For his wife, Jennifer O'Brien, the early deaths of her brother and mother made her understanding of death and loss personal. Although neither was a stranger to death, when metastatic cancer was found throughout Bob's body, the couple was plunged into the receiving end of palliative care and end-of-life preparations. Even with their...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When is it time to move a person living with dementia into a senior living community? How do you avoid an argument with someone who no longer knows what year it is? What do you do if the person you're caring for has trouble recognizing you? How can you lessen the guilt and anxiety that come with dementia caregiving? All of these questions-and more-are answered in this helpful guide through the difficulties of dementia care. Care partners to those...
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