Learn the ins and outs of all the documentation, legal forms and information that you will need to compile in order to get the treatment necessary for your elderly loved ones. Alleviate your stress with the organized Go-to-Packet. This is an essential guide you can use to help your elderly loved ones. Get organized to make caring for your loved ones a lot less difficult than it has to be.

A FINAL EXAMINATION The basic premise of A Final Examination is that as I approach the later stages of fifty years of a life in medicine I have borne witness over the last generation to what would appear to be the gradual decline of family medicine to the point of imminent dissolution. I am well aware that this reality does weigh heavily on my heart and soul as a physician and for that matter throughout my being. I composed a memoir as what seemed to me the most accurate way to dramatize the nature of this loss - beginning with looking at the genesis of my life in medicine, i.e. where doctors come from, and an extensive and personal look at the context and content of a doctor's life, leading to the magic that can occur between doctor and patient. I am a private person. I have always valued the anonymity with which I have been able to live to work and work to live. I want for nothing that I do not already have, certainly not any form of public visibility or recognition. But what other form of revelation can substantiate my plea for concern about medicine's future than one based on open and honest self-revelation, one in which many of my patients also generously have joined in? Who might want to read this book? If you have never had the need for the intimate and trusting support of a competent physician, you will be fortunate to reach your life's conclusion and be able to continue to say the same, as we all will become older, we all make errors of judgment, we all suffer misuses and abuses, we all meet with disease in some form - thus it is to be human - all of us, every manner of doctor included, eventually need a doctor. And this makes the possible disappearance of the traditional dynamic between doctor and patient in all of its manifestations relevant to us all. When you need to make your call, you will not want the medical profession to be as hollow and empty, as antiquated and obsolete as a telephone booth with a dangling defunct phone. At least the telephone booth was replaced with a new and better technology. Does anyone else out there think that our era is so rife with challenge and despair that it is no longer within the power of individuals and committed groups to envision and work toward positive change? The best of our forebearers, many of whom I reference in A Final Examination rejected that thought entirely. It would be my preference to do the same.

How can you stand out as a nursing assistant in a long term care facility or private care? How can you give five star customer service? Love, Care, and May I Help You will give you the tools you need to stand out as an AWESOME nursing assistant.

Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals of everything-their dignity, their personality, their memory, their finances, and their minds. The "skeletons" are the remains of loved ones after the Monster has finished with them. The family members who are not devoured by this beast are, even so, crippled and maimed by its effects on their loved ones. Little did I know when Evelyn and I married in 1970 that this "Jabberwock" would come a'calling on us. My wife at age 60 is now vastly gone, with no memory of her children, or me, or our life together. To our horror, one of our children has tested positive for the autosomal dominant (inherited) gene that is the pathway for the dementia Monster's entrance. We pray for a cure. Dementia: The Monster Within is not an extensive explanation of dementia, although we show some of the science involved to help give understanding. It is first and foremost the story of our family, along with the stories of a few others who have met the Monster. Our experiences may be helpful in recognizing the initial assault. This book also provides a framework of essential steps necessary to prepare both caregiver and loved one for their futures. Most importantly, if you have been affected by this Monster, you should understand that you are not alone in your struggle. There is an enormous responsibility in giving balance when sharing hope of curing these diseases. It would be unconscionable to offer false hope. Yet, there is every reason to have hope. As we write, clinical trials are being conducted for treatments, but each individual needs to be realistic-not every disease will be "cured" before causing harm to some of our loved ones. Tens of thousands of scientists in hundreds of research facilities around the world are making discoveries about dementia almost daily. Some of these discoveries will lead to treatments, and some will lead to cures of some of the dementias. This enormous investment in research will pay off with dynamic discoveries. We cannot give up hope that the future holds a way to ... SLAY THE MONSTER

Whilst caring for my close friend and companion during 2012 I wrote a blog diary. It was written as it happened. Now a year on, I have used the original entries to trigger memories of events and incidents. This book tells the story of my experience caring for someone with a terminal illness. I'm hoping it might help others going through a similar situation.

Called to the bedside of someone critically or chronically ill, what should you bring, what can you do, what must you know, what will you say? Likely you've already sat with a grandparent, parent, brother, sister, lover, or friend in a hospital or nursing home and found yourself disturbed by certain medical protocols, mystified by lab reports, frustrated by insurance forms, benumbed by pharmocracy, thinking taboo thoughts about life or loss, and yourself on the verge of falling sick. LONG DAYS, LAST DAYS is for all of us who sooner or later will be sitting for hours with someone we love, senses heightened in the moment but all the while trying to imagine what lies ahead. Arranged alphabetically, this guide offers astute, practical, single-page entries on 200 topics including Advocacy, Checklists, Directives, Gatekeeping, Hospice, Intensive Care, Laughter, Medicine Cabinets, Mutual Peril, Overnight Bags, Pain relief, Sadness, Sex, Waiting, Wills, Young People, and Zero Visibility. You can learn to distinguish Acuteness from Emergency from Urgency, what to do with Blankets and Pillows, where to seek Help, how to hire caregivers, and what questions to ask Agencies, Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers. You may be curious as to why Keys, Nails, Teeth, and Tubes take on such significance. And you may be anxious to know how best, meanwhile, to attend to your own needs. As a case manager, Hillel Schwartz has worked with clients, families, and friends confronting brain injury, breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, heart disease, kidney failure, paralysis, stroke, and Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, as well as with households coping with dialysis, colostomies, paraplegia, memory loss. As an historian of medicine and technology, he can put in social and cultural context the language, traditions, and expectations that are often at odds among patients, nurses, internists, specialists, surgeons, and caregivers. All of this is reflected in the rich text of LONG DAYS, LAST DAYS, which has an extensive index and links to online resources and further reading/viewing. It is also thoroughly internally hyperlinked so that readers may move easily across associated topics, as from Noise to Snoring to Roommates to Respite. Unlike books on death and dying, spiritual communion or grief and bereavement, this guide takes into account the entire environment of the bedside, its shifting calendar and climate, its terrain and geography, its sense of presence and absence, its contests and compromises, its physical and ethical demands, and the relationships forged or strained, assumed or resumed. Long Days may not necessarily move through Last Months to Last Breaths, but for days, weeks, or months the bedside has its own ecology, for which few of us are ever fully prepared. Read in draft versions by dozens of laypeople as well as family physicians and neurologists, hospice nurses and psychologists, psychiatric social workers, sociologists, and social philosophers, LONG DAYS, LAST DAYS has been found to be equally useful for friends, families, and professionals, for those new to the bedside as for those returning yet again. Open it to a topic of immediate concern and follow the links. . . or look for subjects that have puzzled you in the past . . . or read it from start to finish in anticipation of what you may need to know in a not-so-distant future. Some entries are meditative, some sheerly informative; some are forthright, some celebratory; some ask for boldness, some for reflection. All told, they help ground and empower each of us in our times at the bedside, helping those we love, palm resting lightly, warmly, on the Breastbone.

After living in Southern California for 20 years, the author returned home to upstate New York to watch over his mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He and his brother did everything they could to keep her in familiar surroundings at home and avoid assisted living. They were successful until June 2009, two weeks short of her 80th birthday. "Alzheimer's Moments" documents her life, particularly those poignant and sometimes humorous experiences that occurred along the way, and the challenges of being a primary caregiver. Anyone who has found themselves in the caregiving role to an elderly person will be able to relate to these triumphs and frustrations. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always earnest, this is a first-hand account of what it's like to live with someone progressing through the stages of Alzheimer's disease.

In the spring of 2010, forty-one focus group participants met to identify the service needs of individuals fifty and older living with brain disorders in the Fairfax-Falls Church Community. Participants were comprised of adults fifty and older living with brain disorders, care givers of adults fifty and older living with brain disorders, mental health advocates, individuals who work with and/or for programs that serve adults fifty and older living with brain disorders, and academicians who specialize in geriatric services.

This book gives you Herbal, Homeopathic and Nutritional Treatment for the main Complaints of Menopause. This book started over a decade ago as a Kit including Homeopathic Complexes with Estrogen and a Symptoms Diary and was designed for people living in remote areas without much in the way of medical help. The Diary especially helped when a Specialist turned up for by that time troublesome symptoms would be showing a pattern and it had become a valuable diagnostic tool. The formulas for the Complexes are supplied for you to duplicate.

This book gives you Herbal, Homeopathic and Nutritional Treatment for the main Complaints of PMS. This book started over a decade ago as a Kit including Homeopathic Complexes with Estrogen and Progesterone along with a Symptoms Diary and was designed for people living in remote areas without much in the way of medical help. The Diary especially helped when a Specialist turned up for by that time troublesome symptoms would be showing a pattern and it had become a valuable diagnostic tool. The formulas for the Complexes are supplied for you to duplicate along with the original instructions for their use.

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series

“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose.

A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were “slamming a door inside his head.”

In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis—and treatment—is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor’s place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel—and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.

This guide is for people who care for family members or other with Alzheimer's Disease at home. AD is an illness that changes the brain. It causes people to lose the ability to remember, think and use good judgment, and to have trouble taking care of themselves. Over time, as the disease gets worse, they will need more help. NIH Publication #12-6173.

"Stay Right Where You Are" is a book. A guide for seniors, and adults with disabilities who want to continue living at home, and need help to make that happen.

"IF I HAD UNDERSTOOD THE RIPPLE ON EFFECT OF MENIERE'S DISEASE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOST THE FAMILY HOME," says the Author. In this candid, honest and thought provoking book, he shares his personal experiences. What can go wrong and more importantly, how you can avoid the negative affects that can happen when you suffer from a long term chronic condition like Meniere's. Meniere's disease can affect not only your general sense of well being but your income, savings, future plans, friends, business partnerships and at the heart of it all, your closest personal relationships. A book every Meniere sufferer, their family, friends and partners should read to fully understand how having a long-term chronic condition, like Meniere's disease, can and will affect all your lives. And how you can help prevent this. Keeping life positive in a time of Meniere's. This self-help book may help you keep chaos out of other parts of your personal life. When you can do this, the negative effect of suffering from a long-term condition, shifts to a positive one as you have less stress and anxiety in your everyday life and more personal energy to deal and cope with the disease itself.

New caregivers can find essential tools and resources to assist them to provide care for their care recipient as well as for themselves. Whether they are caring for a spouse, a parent, a child, a friend or relative, this books offers information they can use.

"When a Loved One at Home has Dementia" is a guide to providing care at home for family members suffering from dementia and related disorders. Dr. Francis writes in easy to understand language describing dementia and it's symptoms, including aphasia and other expressive disorders, as well as many common behavior difficulties people suffering from dementia often experience. Dr. Francis discusses how to manage communication issues as well as how to navigate end-of-life decisions and how to understand options like hospice and palliative care, and the many facilities available to provide care for your loved one. A comprehensive resource list is included to make the information provided accessible for most readers and their families.

'A Journey Through Cancer' takes you on the path walked by the author and her husband as they dealt with a rare form of cancer. Through their struggles and battle, she has written their story in hopes that others may find hope and encouragement when facing cancer. She addresses the obstacles they have faced and has included how they learned to deal and cope with each one. Where do you go for help and support? How do you handle the side effects of chemotherapy? How do you handle the information overload? How can you be an advocate for your loved one? The reader will find ways to eliminate nausea and vomiting, weight loss, loss of appetite, mood swings, and more...including recipes to encourage weight gain.

Written by a caregiver who lost his wife to cancer. He hopes this book of practical, daily tools that he used will help someone else in a similar circumstance.

The best weapon in your arsenal is knowledge. The Pathways guidebook is a must-read that facilitates your understanding of these diseases. With life changing know-how, you learn to provide appropriate and loving care while sustaining a healthy quality of life. Saving you time, money and energy.