Taking care of an aging loved one involves making some of life's most difficult decisions. There are many practical issues to consider and it's sometimes hard to know the best course of action.  Now, in Take Care, Ann Rhodes provides clear and practical information to help you make the right decisions. Caregivers will find detailed information on health and hygiene, exercise and stress management, lifts and other assistive devices, and on how to obtain many kinds of professional assistance. Take Care serves as a guide to making the right care-giving decisions and as a source of information for caregivers through the various stages of eldercare.

Take Care: Help and Advice for Caregivers

Parenting & Relationships

Rhodes, Ann

Aging Parents

Harpercollins Canada

Laugh-out-loud funny for girls in this hilarious new series from TV and radio comedy writing talent Nigel Smith.
The Most Embarrassing Dad in the world is back and embarrassing Nat even more than ever! This time they’re on holiday in France but everything is far from ‘bonne’!

Nathalia Buttface and the Most Epically Embarrassing Trip Ever

Children's Books

Smith, Nigel

Humor

HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

The laugh-out-loud funny girl-series returns. This time Nat’s off on a geography field trip. It should be a chance to get away, but Embarrassing Dad’s not far behind. Unfortunately! From TV and radio comedy writing talent Nigel Smith.Nat’s class is going on a week-long field trip to hunt for fossils. Cue: mouldy log cabins, potholing, map reading and more totally boring ‘geography stuff’ – all the things that Nat hates… and Dad loves! Of COURSE he volunteers to come along on the trip as a parent helper.Normally Nat would strictly forbid Dad’s attendance BUT he’s finally applied for a ‘proper’ job – teaching survival skills to juvenile delinquents – which will keep him busy and stop him interfering in her life! If all goes well on this trip, he’ll definitely get the job. Nat just needs to keep Dad away from the canoes… and anything involving a zip wire, oh and perhaps they shouldn’t venture up the rather treacherous-looking mountain Bleak Peak during the strongest storm of all time…

Nathalia Buttface and the Embarrassing Camp Catastrophe

One small act can make a big difference\nViolet Strong is strong by name but not by nature, or so she thinks. She listens but never talks about herself. She’s friendly but doesn’t have many real friends. She’s become good at keeping people at a distance ever since she left home at eighteen and never looked back. 
But when Violet is forced to return home to care for her estranged mother, Glenys, she quickly finds out that life as a carer isn’t easy. Feeling overwhelmed, she’s forced to turn to the other local carers, including childhood friend, Adam, for help. 
Although returning home still feels like a mistake, maybe it will help Violet right some wrongs. After all, she can’t keep running from her past forever, and in learning to look after others, perhaps Violet can start to finally love herself…\nYour favourite authors LOVE Jessica Ryn’s heartwarming novels:\n‘Well-written and entertaining’ Katie Fforde, A Springtime Affair 
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The Imperfect Art of Caring: The uplifting and feel-good novel about community and friendship to escape with in spring 2022

Literature & Fiction

Ryn, Jessica

Contemporary

This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis have lost their father. He has disappeared and, with him, their happy life in London too. They have a new life now, in a new place, in a new (but truly quite old and shabby) home beyond the train tracks. Each day of this new life, they greet the 9.15am train and hope it carries their love to Father, wherever he has gone. But the railway promises to bring something else entirely . . . Along its tracks, the siblings will stumble upon unexpected friendships, madcap adventures, a near disaster or two and, just maybe, a way to find their father. Endlessly enchanting and entertaining, this story from the author of Five Children and It remains as heartwarming today as when it first appeared in 1905. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children's Classics.

The Railway Children (HarperCollins Children’s Classics)

NESBIT, E.

Provides information and advice for handling the medical, business, and legal affairs of aging parents

The Baby Boomer's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents

Politics & Social Sciences

Astor, Bart

Social Sciences

Macmillan General* Reference

If you are preparing to take on the responsibility of caring for an aging parent, this book guides you through the difficult choices that you must make.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents

Linda Colvin Rhodes

Alpha Books

Offers advice on handling the physical, mental, emotional, and financial needs of the aged and includes sections on spirituality, ethnicity, self-neglect, and other issues

Taking Care of Aging Family Members:: A Practical Guide

Hooyman, Nancy

Lustbader, Wendy

Free Press

The author describes how the sudden simultaneous illneses of her parents transformed her hitherto distant relationship with them and with her younger sister

Caring: A Daughter's Story

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rubin, Diane

Diseases & Physical Ailments

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This text provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of aging, and remains the only book of its kind to approach aging from a purely sociological perspective. This new edition is completely updated throughout, with new chapters that discuss the now immanent retirement of the first of the baby boomers, the new form housing arrangements known as semi-independent or assisted living, elder abuse in nursing homes (and quality issues in nursing homes generally), and the long-term problems facing Medicare and Social Security.

Sociology of Aging

Harris, Diana K.

Harpercollins College Div

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