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Caregiving The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal
Helping Your Family and Loved Ones When They Need You Most
By Beth Witrogen McLeod
Sooner or later it will touch us all: A family member or loved one becomes ill or disabled and we step in to help. Caregiving explores medical and financial problems, all aspects of spirituality, and such issues as depression, stress, housing, home care, and end-of-life concerns.
Final Gifts
Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
By Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
When someone we love is dying, it’s hard to know how to help, what to do, what to say. Yet if we know how to listen and what to look for, the dying themselves can often supply the answers, letting us know what they need to hear and express to allay their fears and face death with serenity.
When God Doesn’t Make Sense
By Dr. James Dobson
An immensely practical book for those who are struggling with trials and heartaches they can’t understand. Why does disease, divorce, rejection, death, or sorrow seep into our lives when we are trying to serve the Lord? It just doesn’t seem fair! This book deals unflinchingly with life’s most troubling question—the awesome “Why?”
The Fearless Caregiver
How to Get the Best Care for Your Loved One and Still Have a Life of Your Own
By Gary Barg
Offers tools and strategies for taking care of your own physical and emotional needs while you care for someone you love.
The Gifts of Caregiving
Stories of Harship, Hope, and Healing
By Connie Goldman
Extraordinary conversations with family caregivers, including Dana Reeve, wife of actor Christopher Reeve, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel.
Hard Questions Simple Answers
A Workbook to Take The Crisis Out of Caregiving
By Elana Peters, M.A.
Candlelights for the Family Caregiver’s World
Spiritual Keys for Avoiding Caregiver Burnout and Promoting Inner Peace
By Alice Johnson
Written by a family caregiver, this book focuses on six spiritual keys of wisdom for avoiding caregiver-burnout and promoting inner peace. This book shows why family caregiving is a spiritual mission that teaches us the wisdom of kindness towards others.
How Do I Live When I Know I’m Going To Die
Thoughts and Insights About Life’s Most Challenging Passage and America’s Last Taboo
By Rev. Anton Grosz, Ph.D.
An empathetic look at the gradual dying process from the perspective of the one dying, their caregivers, and their surviving loved ones. Includes thoughts and insights about life’s most challenging experience, along with Hospice Care and End-of-Life information.
Life Worth Living
How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home – The Eden Alternative in Action
By William H. Thomas, M.D.
The Eden Alternative created by Dr. Thomas tries to replace traditional long-term care facilities where loneliness, helplessness, and boredom are often commonplace with a more comfortable setting in which residents enjoy the benefits of a homey atmosphere where plants, birds, rabbits, dogs and cats abound.