Notes from Our Bookshelf:Life in a nursing home can seem hopeless, but it doesn't have to be that way. In our own experience, we've seen what a difference simple things like a garden can do to overcome the sameness of living in a long term care facility. This book describes how a home in New York has fought the despair and loneliness with positive, inspiring programs. This book will open your mind to how nursing home life should be.
Life Worth Living:
How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home - The Eden Alternative in Action
"This book offers a splendid solution for those who feel that death might be the best alternative to old age. A provocative, inspiring, hopeful work." Booklist, Patricia Hassler
Len Hansen, “Mainly for Seniors"
"worthwhile and perhaps lifesaving reading for mature adults and their adult children"
How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home - The Eden Alternative in Action
"This book offers a splendid solution for those who feel that death might be the best alternative to old age. A provocative, inspiring, hopeful work." Booklist, Patricia Hassler
Len Hansen, “Mainly for Seniors"
"worthwhile and perhaps lifesaving reading for mature adults and their adult children"
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Notes from Our Bookshelf:This is a beautifully written, sensitive book. It will make you wish there were more people like Thomas Gass working in nursing homes. Reaches into your spiritual side, as well as your practical.
Nobody's Home:
Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
"Gass dives in and brings to the surface immensely rich stories out of an environment full of pain and decrepitude." The San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2004
Publishers Weekly
"This honest and heartfelt book is a firsthand account of the reality of life in a nursing home. "
Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
"Gass dives in and brings to the surface immensely rich stories out of an environment full of pain and decrepitude." The San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2004
Publishers Weekly
"This honest and heartfelt book is a firsthand account of the reality of life in a nursing home. "
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Notes from Our Bookshelf:The ultimate do-it-yourself guide: how to arrange for your elder years in your comfortable and familiar home instead of a long term care facility. Once you read this, you'll never think about old age with the fear and worry so many of us have. Instead, you'll start planning.
There's No Place Like (a Nursing) Home:
4 Powerful Steps That Will Change Your Life
This is a very helpful and ultimately optimistic book that makes it easier to deal with a difficult subject. Fred Brock, New York Times, August 10, 2003
Lenore Weitzman, Author
This exciting book could save your life...easy to read, optimistic and sensible...full of loving caring, life-affirming help.
4 Powerful Steps That Will Change Your Life
This is a very helpful and ultimately optimistic book that makes it easier to deal with a difficult subject. Fred Brock, New York Times, August 10, 2003
Lenore Weitzman, Author
This exciting book could save your life...easy to read, optimistic and sensible...full of loving caring, life-affirming help.
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Notes from Our Bookshelf:We wish we had this guidebook to help us when we first started caring for Dad, and then Mom after he entered the nursing home. Check lists and "do these" steps remind you of what you've overlooked, especially during emotional times. A good resource to use when discussing caring for your parents with siblings.
The Complete Eldercare Planner Second Edition:
Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
"The book is the best we saw" American Medical Association
White House Conference on Aging
"Joy offers realistic solutions to the eldercare crisis every American faces today"
Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
"The book is the best we saw" American Medical Association
White House Conference on Aging
"Joy offers realistic solutions to the eldercare crisis every American faces today"
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Notes from Our Bookshelf:Another one that would have been a great help to us when we first faced the nursing home dilemma. Particularly useful are the suggestions of what to ask for and how to say it, whether it be to your parent, or to a nursing home administrator. An easily understood book, certainly not above the everyday reader.
Nursing Homes : The Family's Journey
"This book is a complete guide to the family's complex journey of placing someone in a nursing home" Journal of Gerontological Nursing
Los Angeles Times
"...includes wonderful advice on how ...one can influence what goes on inside a nursing home... "
"This book is a complete guide to the family's complex journey of placing someone in a nursing home" Journal of Gerontological Nursing
Los Angeles Times
"...includes wonderful advice on how ...one can influence what goes on inside a nursing home... "
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