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This volume represents a major step forward in the literature by placing its focus squarely on the caregiving context, its dimensions and how it shapes the process and outcomes of family care. The chapters locate care within the family, rather than a single individual....The family, in turn, in embedded within a larger cultural, community, and social context....These explorations of context will give us a broader view of how caregiving occurs. It will help us improve our theories about care and about the family's role in contemporary society....Care of our elders is an enduring and yet evolving part of life. The focus on context will help us understand, support and learn from the ways that families meet the challenges involved."--from the foreword by Steve H. Zarit, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University Here, in Caregiving Contexts, the editors and their chapter authors explore the ways in which demographic change will influence the availability of caregivers and how divergent welfare and ideological systems will affect care among family members and between family and formal care systems. They also discuss the differences in experience between spousal and adult child caregivers, special circumstances such as child or adolescent caregivers, and government and workplace policies that are available to support caregivers in the United States and in some European countries. No other volume is available on caregiving which explores the sociocultural, familial, and sociopolitical contexts that effect both care decisions and outcomes.

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The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people over sixty-five live with the burden of one or more chronic illness. The problems created by the caregiving needs of these and other groups are at the center of several of the most explosive political issues of our time: health care, welfare, child care, and family leave. These issues can be resolved, the editors of this volume contend, only when we as a society understand and value the work of caregiving and provide support for professional and family caregivers.The editors of this volume look not only at the financial, emotional, and physical demands of giving and receiving care but at the strengths and rewards inherent in the world of caregiving. This far-reaching book explores the depth and complexity of caregiving, from practice and personal experience, to ethics and policymaking, to home and institutional care.

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These stories are true, heartwarming, and life-changing.... showing how elder care services of all kinds have impacted the lives of senior clients and families. "Priceless Caregiving" will take you on an emotional journey that gives you inspiration and hope. The stories themselves specifically show how elder care has saved seniors' families from stress, worry, and sleepless nights. The stories also teach all of us the importance of helping our aging loved ones maintain independence and choice for life. Readers will be amazed at how caregivers have not only changed the lives of seniors, but also their family members. This insightful and inspirational book dispels the common myths and misconceptions associated with elder care services. The real-life stories within will help the reader discover how positive and motivating having a team of caregivers and a support system can be for the entire family. Priceless Caregiving reinforces how important it is to choose a reputable elder care service that cares about their clients like family, and provides information to help you make the right decisions for you and your aging loved ones. We owe great thanks and tribute to the tireless caregivers who wrote this book. Each contribution is from a real life hero for our senior population.

Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future. This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists, policy makers, and clinical providers must address as they grapple with these changes, with a primary focus given to the elements that may impact how family caregiving is organized and addressed in subsequent decades, including sociodemographic trends like divorce, increased participation of women in the workforce, geographic mobility, fewer children in post-baby boom families, chronic illness trends, economic stressors, and the current policy environment. A section on the support of caregivers includes technology-based solutions that examine existing models, personal health records, and mobile applications, big data issues, decision-making support, person-centered approaches, crowd-sourced caregiving such as blogs and personal websites that have galvanized caregivers, and new methods to combine paid and unpaid forms of care. Provides a concise "roadmap" of the demographic, economic, health trends, and policy challenges facing family caregiversPresents potential solutions to caregiving so that scientists, policymakers, and clinical providers can best meet the needs of families and communities in the upcoming decadesIncludes in-depth, diverse stories of caregivers of persons with different diseases who share perspectives Covers person-centered care approaches to family caregiving that summarize effective community-based services of psychosocial intervention models Examines how existing efficacious models can more effectively reach and serve individual families

Even as hospitals increasingly recognize spiritual care as an essential component of holistic care, chaplains are still in the process of defining their role. This book acknowledges and celebrates the unique contribution of hospital chaplains, fosters understanding and support for their work, and seeks to elicit interest in their ministry of spiritual caregiving.

Will challenge and equip readers to care for others in a distinctively Christian way and help them feel comfortable talking about their faith, praying with others and trying to comfort a friend?

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With today's cumbersome insurance procedures, government regulations, endless paperwork, and concerns about malpractice rates, many health care professionals are asking: "Why am I doing this? Am I making a difference to my patients? Is there a better way—and if so, what is it?" In this book, Carson and Koenig examine the state of the health care system with the goal of providing healthcare professionals and caregivers the inspiration and practical tools to reclaim their sense of purpose. The book begins with an evaluation of the current system from the perspective of the spiritual vision that initially motivated and nourished many caregivers. The authors then pose a vision of a health care system that supports and nurtures the spirituality of patients and their families, of which some elements already exist. An overview is provided on the preparation necessary for health care professionals to offer spiritual care when there are major implications—for people with chronic illnesses, psychiatric issues, devastating injuries, and those preparing for surgery, facing death, and those living with chronic pain. Also explored are ways that health professionals and caregivers can maintain their own spiritual health even as they work to bring about healing, comfort, and solace to others. Woven throughout the book are the personal narratives of physicians, nurses, chaplains, health care educators, community resource workers, administrators, therapists, and psychologists—all from a wide range of religious traditions. Their examples inspire and assist professionals in renewing the spiritual focus of health care.

These stories are true, heartwarming, and life-changing.... showing how elder care services of all kinds have impacted the lives of senior clients and families. "Priceless Caregiving" will take you on an emotional journey that gives you inspiration and hope. The stories themselves specifically show how elder care has saved seniors' families from stress, worry, and sleepless nights. The stories also teach all of us the importance of helping our aging loved ones maintain independence and choice for life. Readers will be amazed at how caregivers have not only changed the lives of seniors, but also their family members. This insightful and inspirational book dispels the common myths and misconceptions associated with elder care services. The real-life stories within will help the reader discover how positive and motivating having a team of caregivers and a support system can be for the entire family. Priceless Caregiving reinforces how important it is to choose a reputable elder care service that cares about their clients like family, and provides information to help you make the right decisions for you and your aging loved ones. We owe great thanks and tribute to the tireless caregivers who wrote this book. Each contribution is from a real life hero for our senior population.

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Dramatic changes in the American family have transformed the way we care for its oldest and youngest members. Nuclear families have become smaller as childbearing has declined, but extended families have become larger as life expectancy grows. Divorce, extramarital childbearing, cohabitation, and remarriage, have increased our number of kin but often complicate relationships and diffuse responsibility for care. In Intergenerational Caregiving, an interdisciplinary group of scholars considers our changing family relationships and their effect on social policies. Caregiving and its effects on families’ relationships and resources are examined from economic, sociological, anthropological and psychological perspectives, and chapters on both elders and children with disabilities are included.

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Written by an herbalist with more than 35 years of experience and a cancer survivor herself, this guide to home health care offers a wealth of holistic approaches to the many side-effects and consequences of disease process, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, prolonged bedrest, immune compromise, aging and dying, as well as caregiver self-care. Features: Herbal, nutritional, and other natural strategies to support the optimal well being and comfort of both caregivers and those who are ill or dying A core Helping Repertoire describing dozens of potential acute issues as well as numerous detailed strategies for addressing each one An easy-to-access format geared for the reader who is already stressed and needs to find information quickly Guidance in establishing a healing environment for all concerned. Holistic suggestions to promote emotional as well as physical ease Questions for practitioners, handy lists for hospital or clinic stays, home organization tips Discussions of key herbal allies: relaxation and sleep tonics, adaptogens, immune tonics, support for digestion, elimination, liver function, lymphatic drainage, more Extensive annotated resource sections: books, sound healing, supplements, herbs, supplies Detailed appendices provide background material on: environment and healing, herbs and memory, water and hydration, issues in depression, engaging with pain, cancer prevention, the lymphatic system, maintaining bacterial balance, more. Complete index Whether you're caring for a loved one or dealing with dis-ease yourself, this book will help you navigate treatment, recovery or the dying process with more ease and grace. Owning this empowering book is like having a skilled and compassionate collaborator on call whenever you need problem-solving support, day or night.

From Preface - The purpose of the caregivers guides is to offer information based on current theory, research and practice to caregivers in both centers and family child care homes. This guide was written by seven noted experts in the field of early language development and communication and is rich in practical guidelines and suggestions. It focuses on supporting language development and communication in young, mobile and older infants. (Description by http-mart)

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