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"Mothercare represents an investigation of the question of duty, or conscience, what we owe or want to provide to the people in our lives. . . For a reader, there’s something bracing about Tillman’s honesty, which transforms “Mothercare” from a record or a logbook into a work of art." —David Ulin, Los Angeles TimesFrom the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes MOTHERCARE, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one’s mother, and of the time and labor spent navigating the American healthcare system.When a mother’s unusual health condition, normal pressure hydrocephalus, renders her entirely dependent on you, your sisters, caregivers, and companions, the unthinkable becomes daily life. In MOTHERCARE, Tillman describes doing what seems impossible: handling her mother as if she were a child and coping with a longtime ambivalence toward her.In Tillman’s celebrated style and as a “rich noticer of strange things” (Colm Tóibín), she describes, without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and anxious eleven years of caring for a sick parent.MOTHERCARE is both a cautionary tale and sympathetic guidance for anyone who suddenly becomes a caregiver. This story may be helpful, informative, consoling, or upsetting, but it never fails to underscore how impossible it is to get the job done completely right.

Bringing together leading scholars, this international collection examines different dimensions of ageing and ageism in a range of media and how older adults use and interact with the media.

This original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform social work research, policy and practice.

India's ageing population is growing rapidly. This book examines living arrangements across India and their impact on the provision of care for older adults in India.

Getting older, let's talk about it! supports and encourages the baby-boomer generation and our wider community, to consider and prepare for the future as we age. ¿We are living longer and as we age there will be changes to our physical, mental, and emotional health. Over time this will lead to a natural decline in our functional and performance capacity. Hence the need for conversations, practical tools and forward planning to ensure we age well. The opportunities and the challenges of ageing well at home, a goal most older adults aspire to, are highlighted.This practical book invites you to take responsibility for ageing well by placing you in the driver's seat. It inspires you, either alone or with others, to re-examine and rediscover what is important to you, as you plan and determine the next stage of your life.

Are you angry, exhausted, depressed, and at the end of your rope caregiver? Are you guilt-ridden because of it? Then you will definitely identify with the straightforward and undisguised messages found in Diary of a Mad Caregiver, where you will discover life-changing principles to help you make it to the finish line. As you read this book, you will realize the immeasurable value of your labor. You may even find it as a gift to care for another person made in the image of our Creator. Here's help for the task at hand!"With the growing number of family caregivers, there is a paramount need for a book that is real. Mad Caregiver deals with family and sibling issues like finding time for privacy, self-care, rest, past wounds and the struggles of caring for a loved one" ~Angie Samples

"The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and Eastern countries. This book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later life contributes to this trend. Drawing on accounts of retirees from different nations, the book examines how welfare policies in their home country and their country of migration interact to shape their experiences of migration. It shows how ageism impacts social precarity across different social classes, and across economic, social and health dimensions. It also evaluates how local and global systems of inequalities influence retirement migrants' experience, providing both opportunities and constraints that differ across countries."--

Design your dream retirement with this life-changing workbook for the newly retired.Entering retirement is exciting, but all the new possibilities can be daunting. What will you do all day? Where should you live? How will you make your money last? Will you be happy? In My Retirement, My Way, Certified Professional Retirement Coach Veronica McCain helps you dig deep to plan for a successful, fulfilling retirement.Create your own, unique roadmap to retirement with guided exercises that encourage you to examine your values, define success, discover or rediscover passions, find meaning, set goals, and ultimately decide what will make you happy in your second act.Explore innovative advice for living your best retirement life with tips on finances, relationships, health, and more.Discover how other new retirees created their ideal retirements and avoided common pitfalls.Find everything you need to make smart, confident decisions for living the retired life that’s perfect for you.Whether you’re looking for day-to-day guidance or big picture advice, this indispensable workbook will help you plan a happy, purposeful retirement.

This book includes all you need about elderly care and home care services. Also it's a start in how to stop and avoid elder abuse at their home or at the elder care facilities, hospitals or rehabilitation centers. The author focuses on how to take care of your loved ones when they reach the age that they need help in their daily life activities and how to treat them to stop elder abuse.

In five sets of "broken" sonnets, Jack Powers pulls readers into and through the lives, decisions, regrets and celebrations of a score of deeply human characters--himself included. From teenager Jack, who tries to "rig" the Catholic confessional system, to ancient Bob, who tends his dying Joan gently after 62 years of marriage, we watch and find ourselves rooting for Powers' people. We want his seeds to grow, his buds to blossom, his dying leaves to drift in pleasant breezes. We hear the quiet laughter hiding under the songs. Still, life is complex, and Jack Powers feels that complexity with thesensitivity of a seismometer, records it with the accuracy of a mathematician or painter, and plays it like jazz.So listen-and watch--as sonnet rules loosen, lines lengthen, images double back and become symbols, and stories echo other stories. Last Acts come first in this collection, followed by portraits of relationships which are Still Love: a stoned teen grilling burgers for his family; Alice Neel painting brutally honest self-portraits. Sonnet form runs like tangled wire through Powers' book, perhaps most noticeably in the Still Love pieces, and in the section titled Unruly Love, where form and content collaborate in unruling the expected rules. Noble Suffering poems are case studies testing philosophical notions about the value of suffering-with ... tentative results. Still, the final section of Still Love, aptly titled Surrender, ends with a memory of ayoung Jack, "floating, surrendering/ to the current, a contented speck of the quick river, white moon, black night."

Inspite of such concentration of health facilities in the cities compared to rural areas and relative proximity of hospital and other facilities, standards of health care seem to have fallen far below reasonable minimum levels for those who live in slums. There is a phenomenon of an "inverse care law", whereby, those who are in greatest need of medical care have poorest access to it. While the principles of delivery of primary health care are equally applicable to urban health system as to the rural health, the slum population remains ignored on this account to this date.

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2024 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist 2024 Book Excellence Award Winner > Mark enjoyed his carefree bachelor's life in Los Angeles. He had no steady girlfriend, no children, few responsibilities outside of work. But that all changed when "The Call" came. Genevieve, his eighty-nine-year-old mother, was on her deathbed. He rushed back to New Jersey to be by her side. Hours became days, days became weeks, then she woke up. So, he moved back into his childhood home and took over her care. His first task was to remove all hazards, which included the current caregivers. After, Mark asked his mother, "Do you trust me?" She whispered, "Yes." "Do you understand I will do everything in my power to keep you healthy and safe?" She smiled and nodded. "That means I'm in charge, and that means now you must obey me." Her mood shifted in an instant. She looked him dead in the eye, then puckered up her lips. He wasn't sure if this was a sign of surrender or one wishing him luck. He kissed her and hoped for the best. The parent/child role reversal may not have been unique to Mark, but how he dealt with it was. One day, hoping to make Genevieve's time on the commode a tad more pleasant, he offered her a cup of her favorite beverage. It was a hit, and a cup of tea on the commode became a staple on the morning menu, and the clear choice for the title of this intimate, funny, and heartwarming memoir of how eldercare can be done. A Cup of Tea on the Commode chronicles Mark's multitasking adventures of filling his mother's last years with love, laughter, and joy. Though not always successful, he came pretty damn close.

This book discusses gerontological issues and challenges impacting the quality of life of older people in India. The chapters provide different disciplinary insights ranging from sociology, anthropology, psychology, health sciences, social work, demography, gender, and legal perspectives. The chapters are written by experts and practitioners in the field bringing focus to new gerontological insights from an academic and an empirical perspective. It engages the reader with the growth of different branches of gerontology along with concerns faced by older people. It brings attention to concerns related to ageing of the population in different parts of the country, such as among the tribes, the LGBT community, and conflict zones. It highlights gender aspects related to health care and discusses policy responses, strategies to empower older persons, the role of voluntary organizations, issues related to caregiving and family bonding, and aspects of social protection for the older people. It offers a valuable resource for researchers, academics, practitioners, and policymakers in the areas of gerontology, demography, and sociology, as well as all those interested in the study of ageing populations.

Welche Relevanz haben religiose Migrantengemeinden fur die alltagliche Unterstutzung und Pflege von alteren Menschen mit Migrationserfahrung? Professionelle Dienstleistungen der Altenhilfe werden in der genannten Bevolkerungsgruppe bislang nur unterdurchschnittlich genutzt. Gleichzeitig ist bekannt, dass migrantische Religionsgemeinschaften vielfaltige soziale Dienstleistungen erbringen. Das Buch verbindet Erkenntnisse und Perspektiven aus Gerontologie, Migrations- und Religionssoziologie, Soziologie des Alter(n)s, Sozialer Arbeit und Sozialpolitikforschung sowie aus den theologischen Wissenschaften verschiedener Religionsgemeinschaften. Zahlreiche Gemeinden positionieren sich als Akteure einer offenen Altenarbeit oder stellen Anschlusse zur professionellen Altenpflege her.

 With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies. Because of the success of ART, people 50 and older now make up a majority of people with HIV in high-income countries and other places where ART is accessible. The aging of the HIV epidemic is a global trend that is also being observed in low- and middle-income countries, including countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where the greatest number of older people with HIV reside (3.7 million). While globally over half of older adults with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, we have little information about the circumstances, needs, and resiliencies of this population, which limits our ability to craft effective policy and programmatic responses to aging with HIV in this region. At present, our understanding of HIV and aging is dominated by information from the U.S. and Western Europe, where the epidemiology of HIV and the infrastructure to provide social care are markedly different than in sub-Saharan Africa. Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses this gap in our knowledge by providing current research and perspectives on a range of health and psychosocial topics concerning these older adults from across this region. This volume provides a unique and timely overview of growing older with HIV in a sub-Saharan African context, covering such topics as epidemiology, health and functioning, and social support, as well as policy and program implications to support those growing older with HIV.There are very few published volumes that address HIV and aging, and this is the first book to consider HIV and aging in sub-Saharan Africa. Most publications in this area focus on HIV and aging in Uganda and South Africa. This volume broadens the scope with contributions from authors working in West Africa, Botswana, and Kenya. The range of topics covered here will be useful to professionals in a range of disciplines including psychology, epidemiology, gerontology, sociology, health care, public health, and social work.

This edited volume is a compilation of 30 articles discussing what constitutes food for health and longevity. The aim is to provide up-to-date information, insights, and future tendencies in the ongoing scientific research about nutritional components, food habits and dietary patterns in different cultures. The health-sustaining and health-promoting effects of food are certainly founded in its overall composition of macronutrients and micronutrients. However, the consumption of these nutrients is normally in the form of raw or prepared food from the animal and plant sources. The book is divided into four parts and a conclusion, and successfully convenes the well-established information and knowledge, along with the personal views of a diversified group of researchers and academicians on the multifaceted aspects of nutrition, food and diet. The first part reviews the scientific information about proteins, carbohydrates, fats and oils, micronutrients, pro- and pre-biotics, and hormetins, along with a discussion of the evolutionary principles and constraints about what is optimal food, if any. The second part discusses various kinds of foods and food supplements with respect to their claimed benefits for general health and prevention of some diseases. The third part brings in the cultural aspects, such as what are the principles of healthy eating according to the traditional Chinese and Indian systems, what is the importance of mealing times and daily rhythms, and how different cultures have developed  different folk wisdoms for eating for health, longevity and immortality. In the part four, various approaches which are either already in practice or are still in the testing and research phases are discussed and evaluated critically, for example intermittent fasting and calorie restriction, food-based short peptides, senolytics, Ayurvedic compounds, optimal food for old people, and food for the prevention of obesity and other metabolic disorders.The overreaching aim of this book is to inform, inspire and encourage students, researchers, educators and medical health professionals thinking about food and food habits in a holistic context of our habits, cultures and patterns. Food cannot be reduced to a pill of nutritional components. Eating food is a complex human behavior culturally evolved over thousands of years. Perhaps the old adage "e;we are what we eat"e; needs to be modified to "e;we eat what we are"e;.

Suddenly you are taking care of a loved one during their last days. Maybe a parent that always took care of you, perhaps another family member, or even a close friend. There is information given to you about what they will go through... but what will you face? What do you need to know? This book attempts to help you through some of the rough times that it seems no one prepares you for. Not every situation is the same, but there are tidbits of information you can use to help make this an easier time for you and the one you love.

Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in teaching theatre courses and creating theatre with older adults.This book provides instructors with syllabi, discussion questions, classroom management strategies, resource lists, and activities to teach courses from beginning to end. Special topics include Playwriting, Play Development, Storytelling, Theatre Appreciation, Theatre Criticism, Theatre History, and Theatre Theory.This book helps readers become confident, informed instructors of older adult learners. Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a tool for anyone who wants to build theatrical communities and support the emotional well-being of older adults through education, practice, and experimentation while also having fun.Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a complete guide to navigate the theatre classroom from beginning to end. Anyone can become a theatre expert and educator with practice. If you already have a background in performing arts, this book provides strategies that are useful for you as well. If you have experience as an educator, this book will enrich your current skill set with interdisciplinary approaches. Tips and examples throughout assist you in creating and maintaining an accessible environment and making courses your own.So how can teaching and learning about theatre help us live in the moment? When we are not engaged, it's easy to forget that we are capable, curious, creative people who can expand our knowledge and experiences every day. Theatre encourages finding meaning in small things, chance encounters, and the tapestry of life. All the material provided in this book will motivate instructors and students to get involved.It will be most useful for arts practitioners, participatory practitioners, institutional educators and community outreach officers, independent theatre instructors. Of potential interest to scholars and researchers in age studies, or in teaching and learning. May also be useful for community arts organizations, regional theatres, and non-profit organizations working with older adults.

True, amazing stories from the owner of a home care company in New England on life-its purpose and proof of divine intervention. Stories of families in crisis and the incredible turn of events. Inside, you will read how the divine shows life the sign of an afterlife. You will read about the life of one client who was saved with a miracle that defied the odds and evidence-yes, absolute proof of divine intervention in our lives.