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Books

Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers This book addresses the challenges faced by families and friends of those living with Alzheimer; it reveals how their feelings...

Help Wanted: Caregiver: A Guide To Helping Your Loved One Cope With Serious Illness This book offers a primer on both in-home and institutional care as well as the challenges caregivers face in their personal...

"I don't have time for this": A compassionate guide to caring for your parents and yourself. As well known palliative care physician, Ira Byock, notes "the author deftly melds personal and professional experience to...

The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me A stirring memoir of a daughter caring for a mother with dementia that is sure to become a touchstone for many others.

Moments that Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare Dr Gordon, geriatrician, ethicist, educator, speaker, and author, has written this guide for family members to help support...

Of Sorrow and Laughter- Hope and Encouragement for Family Caregivers A book written specifically for caregivers; a collection of verses, poems and pictures that affirms who you are, what you...

So You've Been Appointed Executor [Paperback] Canadian book recommended for friends/family members acting in role as executor for someone who has passed away.

Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot be separated...

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers a practical book about living with a terminal illness. He provides...

When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...