S. Cottrell S. Houle, H. D. M. P. H. P. H. H. Eckstrom

Gift of Caring (eBook, ePUB)

Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal-how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it's too late. Author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory-watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as "just old age." Not having the understanding of the changes that come with aging, she was led to believe there was nothing she could do to help. The tragic secret? According to coauthor and geriatrics physician Elizabeth Eckstrom, these symptoms frequently are not "just old age." Rather, the problem is that the current healthcare delivery model for older people is ill-equipped to provide the comprehensive, person-centered care seniors need. Today, thousands of aging people face unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations, nursing home stays, and even death due to complications that could have been prevented or treated. Even more troubling, many healthcare professionals have had little or no training in the care of older adults. The Gift of Caring reveals these pitfalls and provides families with tools they can use to avoid them. Interspersed with every few chapters of Marcy's riveting story, Dr. Eckstrom shares professional medical insights, compiled from the latest research, into what Marcy could have done to safeguard her parents. She shows us how to navigate the system, how we can become our loved one's best advocate, and what we need to know to achieve healthy aging and meaningful, compassionate final years. Honest, at times humorous, and ultimately uplifting, The Gift of Caring sheds new light on aging from twin perspectives: a story of a daughter desperately seeking help for the parents she loves, and a geriatrician who gives us the knowledge we need to insist upon a better way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630760984
• Artikelnr.: 43809875

Autorenporträt

By Marcy Cottrell Houle M.S. and Elizabeth Eckstrom M.D. M.P.H. - Foreword by Jennie Chin Hansen

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Airplane Diaries 1 Colliding Worlds 2 First Decline What I Wish I
d Known: Early Warning Signs of Dementia (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 3 Panic Attack 4 Countdown to Advocacy What I Wish I
d Known: What Is Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer
s Disease . . . and How Do You Tell the Difference? (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 5 A New Way of Seeing 6 Passages What I Wish I
d Known: How to Find a Good Memory Facility (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 7 Montavilla Beginnings What I Wish I
d Known: Moving Day: How to Ease the Transition (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 8 Dallas II 9 Visiting Hours 10 The Phone Call What I Wish I
d Known: Falls
A Leading Cause of Death in Older Adults and What You Can Do to Prevent Them (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 11 Surgery for an Alzheimer
s Patient 12 It
s a Matter of Life or Death What I Wish I
d Known: A Deadly Fate with Few Symptoms
Dehydration
How to Recognize It and How to Prevent It (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 13 Forsaken 14 No Man Is an Island 15 Do No Harm What I Wish I
d Known: The Problem of Pain in Dementia and Why Millions of Seniors Are Suffering (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 16 Return of the Man Part II: A Good Ending 17 A Radical Prescription What I Wish I
d Known: The Best
Anti-aging
Pill of Them All (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 18 No Senior Left Inside What I Wish I
d Known: The ABCs of Exercise (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 19 I
m Not Cedaring; I
m Scissoring What I Wish I
d Known: How to Ensure Parents
Wishes for Care Are Met
Before a Crisis Hits (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 20 Whös Shelby? What I Wish I
d Known: What Is a TIA? And What Do I Do If I Think My Parent Is Having One? (Elizabeth Eckstrom,MD, MPH) 21 Stories from the Fall 22 The Very Best Christmas Ever 23 Three Things What I Wish I
d Known: The Art to Aging . . . Healthfully. . . for Your Body and Your Mind (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 24 I See Little Green Men What I Wish I
d Known: Come to Your Senses! The Value of Aids (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 25 Delirious 26 Paging Doctor HIP! What I Wish I
d Known: What Delirium Is, and Why It
s Essential You Know How to Spot It (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 27
Sometimes It
s Better If They Never Wake Up
What I Wish I
d Known: The Most Important Medical Word That Can Save Your Parent
s Life
Baseline
(Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 28 Where Old People Are Sent to Die 29 The Lazarus Syndrome 30 A Hope and a Future 31 So What
s a Geriatrician and Why Should I Care? What I Wish I
d Known: The Tsunami Is Coming . . . and Why You Should Be Worried (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 32 Pharmacopeia What I Wish I
d Known: Too Many Pills
The Fourth-Leading Cause of Death in Seniors (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 33 The Search Begins 34 Honey and Dummy 35 Mountains and Valleys What I Wish I
d Known: The Care and Maintenance of Caregivers (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 36 Whös Taking the Trazadone? What I Wish I
d Known: How to Get a Good Night
s Rest
Naturally (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 37 The Art of Caregiving 38 Living to One Hundred 39 And They Shall Inherit the Earth 40 Go GICU! Stop Step-Down! What I Wish I
d Known: The Serious Problems of Today
s Hospitals for Older Adults
Why We Need to Demand a Change Now (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 41 How to Pack for the Next Trip 42 Faithful Companion 43 Crossing the Line What I Wish I
d Known: What Is Palliative Care, and How Can It Help My Parents and Me? (Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH) 44 A Good Ending Appendix 1 The Drugs Seniors Should Not Be On but Are Too Often Prescribed, as Determined by the American Geriatric Society
Beers List
Appendix 2 Health History Sheets: What Every Senior Must Have Appendix 3 Continuity of Care: The Daily Checklist for You, Your Parent, Your Caregiver, and Your Doctor