After her mother’s sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli...
Caregivers
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Author:Coady, LynnSummary: -
Author:Summary:This anthology presents forty narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer's and other dementias on patients as well as their caregivers and family.
- Author:Gale, PatrickSummary:
In her forties, independent Parisian Laura Lewis relocates to Winchester to care for her ailing mother. There she encounters Ben, a former--now married--lover whose home life is far from what he thought it would be.
- Author:Forest, Susan, Law, Lucas KSummary:
Twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors explore the depth and breadth of caring and of giving. They find insight, joy, devastation, and heroism in grand sweeps and in tiny niches. And, like wasps made of stinging words, there...
- Author:Sager, RileySummary:
Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." - New York Times Book Review. Bestselling author...
- Author:Mace, Nancy L.Summary:
Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
Now that their parents are gone, the future has changed dramatically for sisters Adele and Justine. Neither woman knows how to start life over, but both realize they can and must support each other the way only sisters can. Together...
- Author:Stimpson, MichelleSummary:
Tori Henderson's marketing career in Houston is on the fast track. But when her aunt falls ill, Tori returns to her tiny hometown to provide care--and ends up reconnecting with an old crush.
- Author:Meruane, LinaSummary:
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography...
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Author:Grover, Janice ZitaSummary: -
Author:Kirkpatrick, DavidSummary:When Dr. David Kirkpatrick’s wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, their lives—and their marriage—would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, and sometimes heartbreaking account of loving a partner with dementia, Dr....
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Author:Singh, Sonya K.Summary:In this brutally honest portrait of what it's like to be a caregiver, Toronto writer Sonya K. Singh bravely serves up her own experience as a lifeline to others. Anyone who has felt the seismic changes brought on by full-time...
- Author:Kember, LorraineSummary:
Mesothelioma was the furthest thing from Brian Kember's mind when at the age of fifty two he began to experience shortness of breath. Exposed to Asbestos as a child living with his parents in the asbestos mining town of Wittenoom...
- Author:Douglas, ClaireSummary:
Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies' companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn't the comforting haven it seems.
- Author:Arden, JannSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned...
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Author:Fabry, ChrisSummary:A 2014 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner!Devin Hillis is a struggling documentary filmmaker who stumbles onto the story of a lifetime while interviewing subjects at an Arizona retirement home. One of the employees-a seemingly...
- Author:Garbes, AngelaSummary:
Angela Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her...
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Author:Harvey, Sarah N. N.Summary:Royce (aka Rolly) is having a bad year. Not only has his mother dragged him across the country in order to be close to her aged father Arthur, a celebrated cellist, but he's also recovering from mono. When he convinces his mother to let...
- Author:Kessler, LaurenSummary:
Biographer Lauren Kessler recounts her time at a West Coast Alzheimer's facility. Working as an unskilled resident assistant, Kessler learns important lessons about humanity while conducting interviews with patients in various stages of...
- Author:Hay, ElizabethSummary:
Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and well-mannered schoolteacher with a temper that could be explosive. Elizabeth, their oldest daughter, was said to be a difficult...
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