Books on Caring for the Aging

For eldercare-givers, reassuring guides on issues
from funding long-term care to dealing with dementia.

Caring for elderly parents is challenging. It's a season of life requiring strength that comes only from God. In The Caregiving Season, Jane Daly openly shares her stories....

Caring for the Dying explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life....

In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice....

In this book, author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's disease....

Useful Teachings from Buddhism for Reconnecting with Your Aging Parents As our parents age and approach the conclusion of their lives, they offer a parting gift—an immense spiritual opportunity—that comes only once in a lifetime. On Hidden Legacy, you will hear how elderly parents and their...

If families and caregivers are able to identify the emotional needs caused by dementia and understand which skills are lost and which remain, they can lower the behavioral complications and their own stress....

No one wants to think about getting older. It’s true. At any age, when things are moving along normally day to day and everyone seems fit and well, there seems no reason to think about future problems that your friends and relatives might (and probably will) come across as they age....

“One of those rare books that can drastically lighten even the heaviest of loads.” —Rosalynn Carter “Trust me: there is no better guide to caregiving.” —Bill Moyers Gail Sheehy, author of the groundbreaking Passages—which was a New York Times bestseller for more than three...