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An updated and expanded edition of the top-selling consumer guide to Medicare. It explains how to choose the best plans, especially during Medicare’s annual enrollment period, how to use Medicare’s extensive health benefits, and changes to Medicare that are expanding what it will cover and moving care from hospitals into the home.

Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons I've learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine.

Caregiving is a core value in the African American culture. And African American women of faith often fill that role—for elderly parents, sick children, and other members of their community. Yet no one is fully prepared for the reality of disrupted schedules, unpredictable needs, and many sleepless nights that come with caregiving. Jeanne Porter King shares 90 devotions written from her own experience as a caregiver for her mother to encourage you to take time to care for your whole self.

Revolutionizing the way we perceive and live with Alzheimer’s, Joanne Koenig Coste offers a practical approach to the emotional well-being of both patients and caregivers that emphasizes relating to patients in their own reality. Her accessible and comprehensive method, which she calls habilitation, works to enhance communication between carepartners and patients and has proven successful with thousands of people living with dementia.

Altern in Würde, mit Gelassenheit und Freude – der fast 90-jährige Psychiater Rhee Kun Hoo zeigt, wie es gelingen kann. Vergebung (auch sich selbst gegenüber), Ausdauer, die Fähigkeit, Kompromisse einzugehen und Frieden mit sich und anderen zu schließen, sind dabei wichtige Elemente. Hoo hebt die Bedeutung von Liebe und Nachsicht hervor, die Freuden des einfachen Lebens und das Glück der kleinen Dinge. Er plädiert dafür, die Dinge so zu sehen, wie sie sind, ohne Selbstbetrug, mit unverstelltem Blick – und immer mit einer Prise Humor.

高齢者だけでなく若く元気な人でも事故で突然命を落とすことがあります。そんなとき、配偶者や子供が困らないように、50代60代から行っておくべき生前の整理と手続きがたくさんあります。