The Enlightened Caregiver

Tanna Marshall has created a helpful, compassionate guide that provides holistic care for caregivers and their loved ones, including tips and resources to maintain health in body, mind, and spirit, all based on the author's personal experience as her mother's full-time caregiver. The emphasis is on the caregiver and their self-care, with guidance for providing full-time care for a loved one while maintaining a balanced life.

Packed with detailed information and practices for infusing caregiving with spirituality and hope, this book provides simple tools for the practice of mindfulness amidst the stress of the caregiving environment. Straightforward and practical methods are provided for dealing with crisis situations and a section is included on how a caregiver can assist someone who is facing his or her death. With a light and accessible tone, the book's practical information is supported by real-life anecdotes and humorous illustrations.

Enlightened Caregiving is a radical new caregiving paradigm for rehabilitative family caregiving. It recognizes and empowers both caregiver and care recipient as Independent Sources of Inspiration for each other, an equal partnership. Systematically harnessing the transformational power of mutual inspiration can radically reduce the high cost of caregiver overwhelm and accelerate the recovery process, simultaneously. There is a far-reaching, fundamental, non-obvious opportunity of a lifetime enfolded in the rehabilitative family caregiving journey when it gets intense. It is the opportunity to discover who you really are: A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. It is an opportunity to gain the certainty of your personal power to triumph over ANY potentially overwhelming life condition. It is the opportunity for self-realization.

Stroke made him a different man and his bride responsible as his depression turned suicidal, complicated by addiction. Personality change--inverted relationship dynamics--post-traumatic stress; with help, she discovered the difference between care giving and enabling, between sacrifice and martyrdom.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA CAREGIVER'S JOURNAL is a medical reference written by a Buddhist priest who has been a professional caregiver to cancer/chemo and hospice patients in San Francisco hospitals and homes for more than a decade. The introduction contains a 5000 year history of medical marijuana; a discussion of the federal vs. state conflict; the status of current research, including statements from leaders in medicine, law and government. You will find helpful information for counseling and supporting patients; models for living through the cancer crisis or arranging the passing of a loved one; instructions for growing, cooking with and dosing medical marijuana; sources for marijuana seeds, plants and growing supplies; the feds vs. Molly Fry story; legal information; lists of marijuana friendly lawyers and doctors; reference materials; resources; and much more. Entertaining, compelling, informative. Honest and direct. Preview now!

This book is designed to help focus attention on, and development a sensitivity to, the need to include minority aging in the curricula for selected health and allied health professionals. The conference papers covers the topics of aging, culture, ethnicity, and the impact of race and ethnicity on aging.

Prepare to be moved, enlightened, and even amused. Picture those you are caring for thriving rather than just surviving. In this book you will read true stories that demonstrate how to be a Brilliant Caregiver and discover innovative approaches that go beyond the conventional. Imagine a realm where caregiving is not just routine tasks. It's giving care at a whole new level. Inspirational, educational and entertaining, you'll be impatient to get to the next story. A heartfelt approach for family, professionals, and friends. Hi, I'm Ivory, and caregiving found me as a kid when I started taking care of my mother. Then later in life, after I lost my job as a legal secretary because of carpel tunnel, I was asked, "Would you please take care of my mother until I find a professional caregiver?" I learned that caring for someone was much more rewarding than sitting at a computer all day and that began my caregiving career. Read my book, The Brilliant Caregiver, and bring your expertise and experience, along with what you learn from this book, to the people in your life you care for, so that both of your lives can be uplifted.

A leading expert in the science of healthy aging, Dr. Eric B. Larson offers practical advice for growing old with resilience and foresight. More than just canned advice, Enlightened Aging proposes a path to resilience—one that’s proven to help many stave off disability until very old age. The steps on this path include pro-activity, acceptance, and building and maintaining good physical, mental, and social health Using inspiring stories from Dr. Larson’s experiences with study participants, patients, friends, and relatives, Enlightened Aging will help readers determine what their paths can look like given their own experiences and circumstances. It informs readers of the scientific evidence behind new perspectives on aging. It inspires readers with stories of people who are approaching aging with enlightened attitudes. It offers advice and resources for readers to build their own reserves for old age. It recommends ways for readers to work with their doctors to stay as healthy as possible for their age. And it offers ideas for building better communities for our aging population. While especially relevant to the baby boom generation, this work is really for people of all ages looking for encouragement and wise counsel in order to live a long, active life.