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Bestsellers
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
By: Atul Gawande
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The 36-Hour Day
- A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, Seventh Edition
- By: Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, John Chancer
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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For 40 years, "The 36-Hour Day" has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades...
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Great Resource
- By Evie's Choices on 05-12-23
By: Nancy L. Mace, and others
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Briefly Perfectly Human
- Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
- By: Alua Arthur
- Narrated by: Alua Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life.
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Not So Much About Death
- By Peter H Adams on 04-28-24
By: Alua Arthur
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Ageless Aging
- A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan
- By: Maddy Dychtwald, Kate Hanley - contributor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Ageless Aging presents a pioneering new way for women to age—an ascent that includes feeling youthful and vital while gaining wisdom, resilience, and experience.
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Current info (2024) narrated to perfection
- By Linda G on 08-09-24
By: Maddy Dychtwald, and others
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Fun Short Stories for Seniors Heartwarming Outdoor Adventures: Stories Crafted to Stimulate Memories & Personal Reflection, Create Emotional Connections with Others, and Rekindle Family Bonding
- Silver Fitness: For Your Mind
- By: Tenlee Graham
- Narrated by: Michelle Renee Tribble
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Nurture your mind and relationships through feel-good tales set in nature.
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An interesting read
- By Adesola Adebayo on 09-21-24
By: Tenlee Graham
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Two Old Broads
- Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
- By: Dr. M. E. Hecht, Whoopi Goldberg, Tamela Rich
- Narrated by: Devon O'day, Jackie Schlicher
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Old Broads is laugh-out-loud funny and tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years....
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Awesome book
- By Donna Payne on 02-19-23
By: Dr. M. E. Hecht, and others
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
By: Atul Gawande
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The 36-Hour Day
- A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, Seventh Edition
- By: Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, John Chancer
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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For 40 years, "The 36-Hour Day" has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades...
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Great Resource
- By Evie's Choices on 05-12-23
By: Nancy L. Mace, and others
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Briefly Perfectly Human
- Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
- By: Alua Arthur
- Narrated by: Alua Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life.
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Not So Much About Death
- By Peter H Adams on 04-28-24
By: Alua Arthur
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Ageless Aging
- A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan
- By: Maddy Dychtwald, Kate Hanley - contributor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Ageless Aging presents a pioneering new way for women to age—an ascent that includes feeling youthful and vital while gaining wisdom, resilience, and experience.
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Current info (2024) narrated to perfection
- By Linda G on 08-09-24
By: Maddy Dychtwald, and others
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Fun Short Stories for Seniors Heartwarming Outdoor Adventures: Stories Crafted to Stimulate Memories & Personal Reflection, Create Emotional Connections with Others, and Rekindle Family Bonding
- Silver Fitness: For Your Mind
- By: Tenlee Graham
- Narrated by: Michelle Renee Tribble
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Nurture your mind and relationships through feel-good tales set in nature.
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An interesting read
- By Adesola Adebayo on 09-21-24
By: Tenlee Graham
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Two Old Broads
- Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
- By: Dr. M. E. Hecht, Whoopi Goldberg, Tamela Rich
- Narrated by: Devon O'day, Jackie Schlicher
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Two Old Broads is laugh-out-loud funny and tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years....
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Awesome book
- By Donna Payne on 02-19-23
By: Dr. M. E. Hecht, and others
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Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer’s Journey
- A Guide for Families and Caregivers
- By: Jolene Brackey
- Narrated by: Jolene Brackey
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves....
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Very helpful
- By Esther Diaz on 05-03-24
By: Jolene Brackey
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Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
- The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
- By: Walter C. Willett MD DrPH
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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There's an ever-growing body of evidence supporting the relatively simple principles that are behind healthy eating - yet the public seems to be more confused than ever....
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Pass
- By vonronge on 12-26-17
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The Dementia Caregiver's Survival Guide
- An 11-Step Plan to Understand the Disease and How to Cope with Financial Challenges, Patient Aggression, and Depression Without Guilt, Overwhelm, or Burnout
- By: Janet G. Cruz
- Narrated by: Susanna Burney
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Dementia Caregiver’s Survival Guide is here to offer a lifeline to caregivers, providing practical advice and emotional support to help you cope with the complexities of dementia care....
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"Vascular dementia is different than Alzheimer's Disease, despite the poularity they both share"
- By Iluvatar on 06-04-24
By: Janet G. Cruz
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The Art of Dying Well
- A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
- By: Katy Butler
- Narrated by: Katy Butler
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end-of-life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times best-selling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door....
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Me too
- By Clif Green on 01-04-20
By: Katy Butler
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Home Birth on Your Own Terms
- A How to Guide for Birthing Unassisted
- By: Heather Baker
- Narrated by: Poppy Royana
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you looking for a natural pregnancy and birth book? If you are planning a home birth or need an unassisted birthing plan, this is the audiobook for you. Get your body and mind prepared for a natural geared pregnancy and birth, where you make all the rules and decisions....
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1980 home birth alone
- By Scarlett Custer on 12-08-22
By: Heather Baker
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Elderhood
- Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
- By: Louise Aronson
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....
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Well written but too long
- By Eric Troyer on 08-21-20
By: Louise Aronson
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The Florence Prescription
- From Accountability to Ownership: 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: Joe Tye
- Narrated by: Diana Cossi
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Florence Nightingale returns to help a medical leadership team foster a stronger culture of ownership. In this heartwarming and thought-provoking story you will learn why no one ever checks the oil in a rental car, and proven strategies to foster a culture of ownership, plus much more....
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Inspiring
- By pat on 02-27-24
By: Joe Tye
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A Culture of Promise
- The True Story of a Small Company's Quest to Transform the Senior Living Industry
- By: Fee Stubblefield
- Narrated by: Fee Stubblefield
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Culture of Promise: The True Story of a Small Company’s Quest to Transform the Senior Living Industry, author Fee Stubblefield encapsulates the best insights on how to build an organization from the ground up and the challenges and opportunities the senior living industry as a whole faces.
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Inspiring and authentic portrayal
- By Adam J. Kaplan on 08-15-24
By: Fee Stubblefield
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Veterans Benefits for You
- Get What You Deserve
- By: Paul R. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Timothy Michael Burke
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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All veterans and their families deserve the maximum benefits they earned by bravely serving their country!
By: Paul R. Lawrence
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How to Get Medicaid to Pay for Some or All of Your Long-Term Care Expenses
- By: Jason Neufeld
- Narrated by: Abby Rosenthal
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Most people don’t realize that Medicaid is available to pay for long term care expenses. Even fewer know that one can legally and ethically qualify for Medicaid before going broke!
By: Jason Neufeld
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The Language of Kindness
- A Nurse's Story
- By: Christie Watson
- Narrated by: Christie Watson
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Christie Watson spent 20 years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful audiobook, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients....
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Story of kindness, story of Nursing in GB
- By michael on 06-19-18
By: Christie Watson
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The Silver Tsunami of Seniors
- Your Blueprint to Starting a Residential Assisted Living Business that Creates Residual Income and Builds a Legacy
- By: Gene Guarino
- Narrated by: Gene Guarino, Isabelle Guarino-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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With 77 million Baby Boomers in the United States, people all over the country are worried about receiving the call that their mom, their dad, or their elderly loved one will suddenly have a health crisis with no one nearby to help....
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Sales pitch for other courses
- By Brian Baker on 07-21-23
By: Gene Guarino
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COPD
- Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions About Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
- By: Donald A. Mahler
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading expert answers your questions about how to live to your fullest with COPD.
By: Donald A. Mahler
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Graceful Transitions: The Journey with Aging Parents
- A Practical Handbook for Supporting Aging Parents with Dignity and Respect
- By: SB Wade
- Narrated by: Dawn Wecker
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The introduction to "Graceful Transitions: Navigating the Journey with Aging Parents" sets the tone for a book aimed at supporting listeners through the complexities of caring for elderly parents.
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helpful and informative
- By Doc on 09-17-24
By: SB Wade
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Cultivating the Doula Heart
- Essentials of Compassionate Care
- By: Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
- Narrated by: Rina Ríos
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Loss is difficult...and universal. What do we say? What do we do? Part how-to guide, part hopeful manifesto, Cultivating the Doula Heart provides a clear framework for supporting those facing hardship, grief, and loss.
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Medicare for the Lazy Man 2023
- Simplest & Easiest Guide Ever!
- By: Douglas B. Jones CLU RHU
- Narrated by: Douglas B. Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Medicare for the Lazy Man is a quick and thorough guide created by a highly qualified expert. It will tell how to slide through that encounter with Medicare and squirt out the other side with the best protection available on the market today....
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YOU NEED THIS BOOK!!
- By K. Hayes on 06-17-24
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Hope for the Caregiver
- Encouraging Words to Strengthen Your Spirit
- By: Peter Rosenberger
- Narrated by: Peter Rosenberger
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you help someone...who helps someone? You put 30 years of experience into their hands....
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Well, of course I liked it!
- By Peter R. on 05-27-18
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Thoughtful Dementia Care
- Understanding the Dementia Experience
- By: Jennifer Ghent-Fuller
- Narrated by: Natalie Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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An easy-to-listen and sensitive portrayal of the changing world of people with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease or other diseases, and those who care for them....
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Modern Death
- How Medicine Changed the End of Life
- By: Haider Warraich M.D.
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die....
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Wow, great book
- By rcmedic on 05-19-17
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That Good Night
- Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
- By: Sunita Puri
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Sunita Puri
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Interweaving evocative stories of Dr. Sunita Puri's family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well....
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Never needed 1.25x more... GREAT BOOK THOUGH!
- By Viejo Mzungu on 04-30-19
By: Sunita Puri
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At Peace
- By: Samuel Harrington
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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At Peace outlines specific active and passive steps that older patients and their health-care proxies can take to ensure loved ones live their last days comfortably at home and/or in hospice....
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A must read
- By fishermn on 02-26-18
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Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People
- How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease
- By: Stephen G. Post, Jade C. Angelica - appendix
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware of—and find renewed hope in—surprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline....
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Life changing
- By Pirl Bird on 02-24-23
By: Stephen G. Post, and others
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Death Is but a Dream
- Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End
- By: Christopher Kerr, Carine Mardorossian
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process....
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OK
- By Oneeye on 03-02-20
By: Christopher Kerr, and others
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Honest Aging
- An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life (Johns Hopkins Press Health Series)
- By: Rosanne M. Leipzig MD PhD
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than thirty-five years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an indispensable guide to the second half of life, describing what to expect physically, psychologically, functionally, and emotionally as you age....
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Vital Info for All Ages & Review Often
- By MtnGirlJoy on 01-08-24