Redefining Aging
eBook - ePub

Redefining Aging

A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life

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eBook - ePub

Redefining Aging

A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life

About this book

Myth-busting insights that will empower family members to cope with the challenges and blessings of caregiving while aging successfully themselves.

Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving.

In this comprehensive book, best-selling author Ann Kaiser Stearns explores the practical and personal challenges of both caregiving and successful aging. She couples findings from the latest research with powerful insights and problem-solving tips to help caregivers achieve the best life possible for those they care for—and for themselves as they age.

Topics include
• Improving the quality of life for the one giving and the one receiving care
• Distinguishing normal aging from early warning signs
• Understanding caregiver sadness, resentment, guilt, and grief
• Using strategies and skills to minimize an impaired elder's distress and emotional outbursts and the caregiver's own anxieties about growing old
• Finding resources to aid in the care of the loved one and protect the caregiver from stress overload
• Moving forward after the death of a loved one to have a meaningful life of one's own
• Overcoming ageist stereotypes and deciding what kind of "old person" one will be
• Making life easier for those who someday will care for us

Redefining Aging will help readers think differently about caregiving and their own aging.

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Information

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781421423692
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Caregiving

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword, by J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., MD
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1. The Challenge
  10. Chapter 2. On Both Sides, Vulnerability and Loss
  11. Chapter 3. Is This Normal Aging or Dementia?
  12. Chapter 4. Aging as Successfully as Possible—Both You and Your Loved One
  13. Chapter 5. Anger, Guilt, and Resentment
  14. Chapter 6. Caregiver Stress—What Helps and What Usually Doesn’t
  15. Chapter 7. Comforting Insights and Myth-Busting Knowledge
  16. Chapter 8. You’re Not a Bad Person Because You’re Exhausted or Just Need a Life of Your Own
  17. Chapter 9. Truly Helpful Caregiving Tips
  18. Chapter 10. When Your Loved One Dies—Relief, Grief, and Moving Forward
  19. Chapter 11. What Kind of an “Old Person” Will I / Will You Become?
  20. Chapter 12. Making Life Easier for Those Who Someday Will Take Care of You
  21. Epilogue. A Letter to My Daughters
  22. Appendixes A. Helpful Books and Videos
  23. Appendixes B. Additional Resources
  24. Appendixes C. Legal and Financial Resource Guide
  25. Notes
  26. Index