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The Gift of Caring

Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

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The Gift of Caring

Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal—how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it’s too late. Author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer’s, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory—watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as “just old age.” Not having the understanding of the changes that come with aging, she was led to believe there was nothing she could do to help. The tragic secret? According to coauthor and geriatrics physician Elizabeth Eckstrom, these symptoms frequently are not “just old age.” Rather, the problem is that the current healthcare delivery model for older people is ill-equipped to provide the comprehensive, person-centered care seniors need. Today, thousands of aging people face unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations, nursing home stays, and even death due to complications that could have been prevented or treated. Even more troubling, many healthcare professionals have had little or no training in the care of older adults. The Gift of Caring reveals these pitfalls and provides families with tools they can use to avoid them. Interspersed with every few chapters of Marcy’s riveting story, Dr. Eckstrom shares professional medical insights, compiled from the latest research, into what Marcy could have done to safeguard her parents. She shows us how to navigate the system, how we can become our loved one’s best advocate, and what we need to know to achieve healthy aging and meaningful, compassionate final years. Honest, at times humorous, and ultimately uplifting, The Gift of Caring sheds new light on aging from twin perspectives: a story of a daughter desperately seeking help for the parents she loves, and a geriatrician who gives us the knowledge we need to insist upon a better way.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1630760986

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The Gift of Caring

Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

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Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

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The Gift of Aging

Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

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The Gift of Aging

Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

Award-winning authors Marcy Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom have teamed up again following the success of their critically acclaimed book The Gift of Caring, winner of the 2016 National Christopher Award. This new book blends frontline science with inspirational stories and insights from wise elders for aging with health, joy, and purpose. The book explains how our bodies and brains age, defining what can be expected with aging and what is unusual. It demonstrates ways we can significantly increase our chances for a positive aging experience into our 80s, 90s and 100s. It offers key strategies for meeting the challenges of aging, informs us of issues of inclusion and equity, and advises on handling legal and financial affairs. The Gift of Aging illustrates how we can make the third act of our lives meaningful and fulfilling, ensuring we as elders can make a difference in our world.

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301

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Cambridge University Press

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1009330764

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9781009330763

Time and the Gardener

Writings on a Lifelong Passion

By: Elizabeth Sheldon

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Time and the Gardener

Writings on a Lifelong Passion

By: Elizabeth Sheldon

From her vantage point as an octogenarian gardener, Elisabeth Sheldon knows that one of the most important elements in the making of both a great garden and a great gardener is the passage of time. Now, in Time and the Gardener, Sheldon shares with readers the lessons, triumphs, tips, and favorite plants that have inspired her over the last three decades.

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288

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Beacon Press

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080708557X

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9780807085578

The Gift of Aging

Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

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Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom

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Cambridge University Press

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The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews after the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth Anthony

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The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews after the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth Anthony

Explores the realities that Viennese Jews’ faced while reestablishing their lives upon returning home after the Holocaust.

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290

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Wayne State University Press

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0814348130

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County Courthouse Book

By: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

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County Courthouse Book

By: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

The County Courthouse Book is a concise guide to county courthouses and courthouse records. It is an important book because the genealogical researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the main repositories of county records. To proceed in his investigations, the researcher needs current addresses and phone numbers, information about the coverage and availability of key courthouse records such as probate, land, naturalization, and vital records, and timely advice on the whole range of services available at the courthouse. Where available he will also need listings of current websites and e-mail addresses." -- Publisher website.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317973

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The Gift of Caring

Saving Our Parents-and Ourselves-from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom,Jennie Chin Hansen

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Saving Our Parents-and Ourselves-from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

By: Marcy Cottrell Houle,Elizabeth Eckstrom,Jennie Chin Hansen

In a powerful blending of memoir and practical strategies from a medical doctor's perspective, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents - and ourselves - from the Perils of Modern Healthcare reveals the hidden side of modern healthcare practices for aging Americans. This ground-breaking book, co-written by award-winning author Marcy Houle and nationally-recognized geriatrician and public health advocate, Elizabeth Eckstrom MD MPH, sheds new light on aging by showing it from twin perspectives: the story of a daughter desperately seeking help for the parents she loves, and a geriatrician who offers life-changing strategies that can protect our loved ones and ourselves. Today, for many older adults, the medical delivery system is confusing, fragmented, and ill-equipped to provide comprehensive, person-centered care. Under our current healthcare model, thousands of aging persons face unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations and nursing home stays, and even preventable death. Seniors and families often feel powerless as they travel this sad journey. Not having knowledge of aging's changes, they resign themselves to believing there is nothing anyone can do to help, while some health care professionals simply write off symptoms seniors endure as "just old age." But as Marcy Houle discovered in caring for her parents, many of the problems often are not "just old age." Further, the real issue is not that the answers to ease suffering don't exist. Rather, what we need to know is generally not available to the general public. Even more concerning, many health care professionals have had little or no training in the care of older adults. The Gift of Caring hopes to change that. It is written to give empowerment to all older adults, family members, and health care professionals, by sharing much needed knowledge and practical strategies. The Gift of Caring shows the best ways to advocate for our parent's health care ... and our own ... by giving us the tools we need to insist upon the better way. Your parents and you deserve the best healthcare as you age- But there are so many reasons why that's not happening.You can change that.

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1493034081

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9781493034086

Book's by Elizabeth Eckstrom

The Gift of Caring

The Gift of Caring

The Gift of Caring

The Gift of Caring

The Gift of Aging

The Gift of Aging

Time and the Gardener

Time and the Gardener

The Gift of Aging

The Gift of Aging

The Compromise of Return

The Compromise of Return

County Courthouse Book

County Courthouse Book

The Gift of Caring

The Gift of Caring

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