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By Richard L. Peck
When aging parents start needing help living safely at home, you can be in for a big surprise. The help available can be more expensive than you ever imagined. And some of the resources available, nursing homes in particular, can be scary beyond belief. �Never send me to a nursing home� is a common plea from older family members. Author Richard L. Peck knows this as well as anyone�he went through the experience with his aging mother. But he comes at it from a different angle than most: he spent 18 years editing a magazine, Long-Term Living, that covered every aspect of long-term care. He saw the good, as well as the bad and ugly. He also became aware of the growing choices available to families seeking help with long-term care, choices you may not have heard much about, but they could save a great deal of money, emotional stress and frustration. These readable, bit-sized blogs will introduce you to a world you probably didn�t know existed, one that will help you take care of Mom and Dad better than you thought possible.
Adapted from blogs written for the facility search web site SnapForSeniors.com, now known as CareLike.com. With permission.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Richard L. Peck
When aging parents start needing help living safely at home, you can be in for a big surprise. The help available can be more expensive than you ever imagined. And some of the resources available, nursing homes in particular, can be scary beyond belief. �Never send me to a nursing home� is a common plea from older family members. Author Richard L. Peck knows this as well as anyone�he went through the experience with his aging mother. But he comes at it from a different angle than most: he spent 18 years editing a magazine, Long-Term Living, that covered every aspect of long-term care. He saw the good, as well as the bad and ugly. He also became aware of the growing choices available to families seeking help with long-term care, choices you may not have heard much about, but they could save a great deal of money, emotional stress and frustration. These readable, bit-sized blogs will introduce you to a world you probably didn�t know existed, one that will help you take care of Mom and Dad better than you thought possible.
Adapted from blogs written for the facility search web site SnapForSeniors.com, now known as CareLike.com. With permission.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Sharon Olson
There is nothing more startling than the moment it becomes clear that an aging loved one can no longer live alone or with their partner without assistance. This book is written with humor and compassion along with some very practical advice for those confronted with the trials and joys of everyday life with aging parents.This book is not laundry list of resources. It is a poignant and inspiring story of a sweet little mom and her 50-something daughter who struggled to understand the shocking realization of the mom’s diminished ability to deal with everyday life. It gives the reader the inside scoop on assisted living with stories that are funny, frightening, heartbreaking and hopeful all at the same time. You will laugh and you will cry as you come to understand why she chose to call their story – My mother is not a geranium.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Sharon Olson
There is nothing more startling than the moment it becomes clear that an aging loved one can no longer live alone or with their partner without assistance. This book is written with humor and compassion along with some very practical advice for those confronted with the trials and joys of everyday life with aging parents.This book is not laundry list of resources. It is a poignant and inspiring story of a sweet little mom and her 50-something daughter who struggled to understand the shocking realization of the mom’s diminished ability to deal with everyday life. It gives the reader the inside scoop on assisted living with stories that are funny, frightening, heartbreaking and hopeful all at the same time. You will laugh and you will cry as you come to understand why she chose to call their story – My mother is not a geranium.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Suzanne D. Lonn
While the themes of elder abuse, alcoholism, depression, and dementia develop in the novel, Mixed Nuts, humor, hope, and love also abide with the residents of Pear Blossom Plaza. The character-driven novel intertwines the lives of the elderly as they persevere together in a retirement home in southern Oregon. Maria, lonely and depressed, blossoms with a man’s affection. Bertha, crippled physically and emotionally, finds hope and a long-lost relative through the influence of a teenage girl. Other residents show their humor and frailities as they interact through their daily activities. Baby Boomers, be prepared!
FORMAT: E-Book
By Suzanne D. Lonn
While the themes of elder abuse, alcoholism, depression, and dementia develop in the novel, Mixed Nuts, humor, hope, and love also abide with the residents of Pear Blossom Plaza. The character-driven novel intertwines the lives of the elderly as they persevere together in a retirement home in southern Oregon. Maria, lonely and depressed, blossoms with a man’s affection. Bertha, crippled physically and emotionally, finds hope and a long-lost relative through the influence of a teenage girl. Other residents show their humor and frailities as they interact through their daily activities. Baby Boomers, be prepared!
FORMAT: Softcover
By Suzanne D. Lonn
While the themes of elder abuse, alcoholism, depression, and dementia develop in the novel, Mixed Nuts, humor, hope, and love also abide with the residents of Pear Blossom Plaza. The character-driven novel intertwines the lives of the elderly as they persevere together in a retirement home in southern Oregon. Maria, lonely and depressed, blossoms with a man’s affection. Bertha, crippled physically and emotionally, finds hope and a long-lost relative through the influence of a teenage girl. Other residents show their humor and frailities as they interact through their daily activities. Baby Boomers, be prepared!
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Mel Reaves
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FORMAT: Softcover
By Susan D. Badger and Susan Lane Shaw
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FORMAT: Softcover
By Janet ''Warm Wind'' Powell
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FORMAT: Softcover
By Jeanette Geismar Levitt
Although the title suggests an exposition directed specifically toward the old age quandary, and the author begins by questioning its positive and negative aspects, the theme enlarges to include the whole meaning of life and death. The author’s career as a psychologist was an advantage in pursuing this complicated subject due to the easy access of her extensive “psych” library. These books, written by many gifted thinkers became the avenue by which such complex questions could be confronted. The author invites the reader to join in the search which takes many unexpected turns in the attempt to unravel the life-death, mind-body dilemma. Therapies abound as an inevitable accompaniment to deal with the human limitations in all of life, from birth on. It is written toward the view that the reader will find a resonance with some of the exciting ideas presented which complicate the original simple search for a “how-to-in-old-age”.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Marion Gage Levy
“The Dollar Lunch” is an eloquent description of the elderly and their struggle to have a life, as told through the eyes of a middle-aged woman, who works at a Senior Center. Through her detailed description, of her interaction with these people and others, with little money, she gives us access to the universal battle of survival. This is a compelling story of existence, of struggles won and lost, by those survivors who have not yet given up.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Marion Gage Levy
“The Dollar Lunch” is an eloquent description of the elderly and their struggle to have a life, as told through the eyes of a middle-aged woman, who works at a Senior Center. Through her detailed description, of her interaction with these people and others, with little money, she gives us access to the universal battle of survival. This is a compelling story of existence, of struggles won and lost, by those survivors who have not yet given up.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Sally H. Merritt
32 amusing and interesting sketches of life in a retirement home as seen by a resident.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Dorothy Williams
A lighthearted look at retirement, one that even the 'Baby Boomers' now reaching middle age might enjoy chuckling over as they glimpse life on the other side of the fence.
FORMAT: Softcover
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