An MS diagnosis presents many unanswered questions: How is this diagnosis going to change my life? Where do I begin? How will I manage to take care of my family, work, and travel? No one knows the answers to these questions better than Shelley Peterman Schwarz, who has lived nearly forty years with multiple sclerosis. Schwarz imbues her updated collection of practical tips and short cuts with personal stories that highlight her trials and triumphs. Shelley shares her real-life experiences as a wife, mother, friend, and employee/employer coping, managing, and growing with MS with a humorous warmth and unflinching honesty. This extensively revised and updated third edition is packed with helpful information and now includes over 800 tips and new solutions and strategies for confronting the challenges of living a full life with a debilitating chronic illness. With Shelley’s guidance, readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making everyday tasks easier, manage symptoms, maintain positive relationships, stay motivated, and bounce back when MS knocks you down. Expanded chapters cover medical issues, home safety and accessibility, dressing and looking your best, and travel. NEW sections include: <ul>
<li>A Thriver’s Guide</li> <li>Taking Charge—Mentally and Physically</li> <li>Family and Friends</li> <li>Marriage</li> <li>Sexual Compatibility and Intimacy</li> <li>Being a Parent</li> <li>Driving and Disability</li> <li>Working</li> <li>Finding Help and Support</li> </ul>
With hundreds of new tips and tools, and practical wisdom for meeting challenges large and small, this book continues to inform, encourage, validate, and empower individuals and families living with multiple sclerosis.

Multiple Sclerosis: Tips and Strategies for Making Life Easier

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Peterman Schwarz, Shelley

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Demos Health

This completely revised second edition of Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier contains tips, techniques, and shortcuts to help MS patients organize and simplify their lives. With over 300 tips readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making life easier, so they can enjoy life to the fullest. 
From basic principles to unique solutions for saving time and energy to specific ideas, this book is packed with helpful information for those coping with the special challenges of a chronic illness. Updated chapters cover Home Safety and Accessibility Computers and Technology Looking Good, Feeling Better - Grooming and Dressing Managing Mealtime and much more. NEW sections include: 
<ul>
<li>Managing medical issues </li>
<li>Travel tips for weekend getaways or extended travel </li>
<li>Unique product suggestions for practical helpful items that make everyday tasks easier </li>
<li>Resource section to easily locate products and services </li>
</ul>
Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier, 2nd Edition is a valuable resource for individuals living with MS, family members, caregivers, and medical professionals. "

Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier, 2nd Edition

An indispensable resource for patients, families, and caregivers Filled with creative tips and techniques, this updated second edition of Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier contains a wealth of ideas and shortcuts for working, organizing, simplifying, and conserving time and energy while living with Parkinson's disease. It includes: <ul>
<li>Ways to make your home safe and accessible, your mealtimes more pleasurable, and your communications easier </li>
<li>Unique product suggestions that make daily living tasks less stressful </li>
<li>Extensive resources to help you easily locate items and services</li>
</ul>"

Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier

Parenting & Relationships

Arthritis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier is a compendium of tips, techniques, and life-task shortcuts all learned from personal experience. Author Shelley Peterman Schwarz has lived with a chronic disease for years and as a result had to develop these creative ideas to make her life easier.These useful tips will make all the daily tasks of household management easier, less frustrating, and more enjoyable. The book gives valuable information on organizing workdays, households, activities, chores and making homes more accessible. 
Helpful for both health professionals working with people living with arthritis and also of great use for people with arthritis to learn very simple and practical tips for everyday life. The book is well organized by topic, easy to read, clearly written, and has up-to-date references which include addresses, phone, and web sites."

Arthritis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier

Written by the best-selling author of Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier and Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier, Home Accessibility: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier is designed to help people with chronic illness, physical disability, temporary or permanent (including low vision, blind, hard of hearing, the Deaf, and others), and age-related limitations make their homes safer and more accessible without costly remodeling or structural changes. Shelley Peterman Schwarz shares her unique blend of motivation, inspiration, and practical tips, techniques, and shortcuts with her readers. She has learned from personal experience, to adapt, organize, and simplify life. Shelley covers the basic concepts of Universal Design, as well as knowing what modifications one can do personally and what changes require professional attention. Chapters cover every room of the home and outdoor living. Readers will also find suggestions for unique products, many not readily available in stores. A resource section at the end of each chapter provides information for contacting support organizations and helpful services and products. Home Accessibility: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier Answers Questions Such As:<ul>
<li>How do I live in my home now that I use a mobility device? </li>
<li>How do I get in and out of the shower? </li>
<li>What are some ways to make my kitchen (bathroom/bedroom) easier to use? </li>
<li>How do I get in and out of the house, up and down stairs? </li>
<li>How do I stay connected with the world outside of my home? </li>
<li>And more </li>
</ul>
Shelley Peterman Schwarz teaches and inspires people who are experiencing limitations of all types how to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making life easier, and enjoy life to the fullest. "

Home Accessibility: 300 Tips For Making Life Easier