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It begins with a phone call, the kind we all fear. Your 87-year-old father has been admitted to hospital after a heart attack, leaving your 89-year-old mother at home alone. So you pack a small bag and go home to help. But then your life collapses as quickly as your parents' health. You find your...

an easy-to-read guide for carers living with people with dementia. It provides simple, practical solutions to the everyday problems family carers can face when looking after a person with dementia. Covering areas like how to cope with aggression, creating relaxing environments, 'wandering', s...

Children are often reluctant to speak about their worries, which makes it difficult to know how serious their concerns are and how you can support them. This guide offers quick-to-action parenting solutions, effective coping strategies and simple lifestyle changes to help you help your child expr...

A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter struggle to come to terms with the disease that intensifies an already dependent relationship. At their root, these existential dilemmas grow out of long-established pattern...

This concise, practical book will help all carers, family members and friends to effectively support a person with schizophrenia or other psychoses. It provides the detailed knowledge required to support people with these conditions, along with information on common problems and challenges, sel...

There were holes in Sam Mills's life when she was growing up - times when her dad was just absent, for reasons she didn't understand. As she grew older, she began to make up stories about the periods when he wasn't around: that he'd been abducted, spirited away and held captive by a mysterious tr...

'Being a Good Carer' is essential reading for anyone who cares for an elderly person, whether as a professional or as a loved one, in its promotion of the role dignity and respect should play. This accessible and detailed guide includes practical tips, checklists for best practice and case studie...

James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips, and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garde...

Jane Matthews gives valuable and comprehensive advice into the whole range of carer's situations, whether that involves shopping for a housebound neighbour, or giving up work to care full-time for a disabled child or confused parent.

This text shows how simple mindfulness techniques can help caregivers to manage the stress, anxiety, depression and burnout that too often accompanies the care of people with physical, psychological or emotional needs. The enjoyable mindfulness exercises will help caregivers to regain control and...

Advises and reassures people who are facing death, and their friends, families and carers. Charts pathways from fear to courage, loss to discovery and from denial to insight. Inspires with moving and powerful quotations from major religions and cultures. Offers complementary therapies such as m...

Whether due to old age, illness or disability, more and more of us are becoming carers to loved ones. This is a complete handbook for anyone in a caring role, guiding you through the practical, emotional and administerial challenges of supporting a loved one.

Meet Carly. Carly is a young person caring for her mother who has Multiple Sclerosis and depression. This book raises awareness about children who live with and care for parents or other relatives in the home. It describes what young carers like Carly do, and the practical and emotional impact ...

This simple introduction to Parkinson's disease can help family, friends and carers to better understand and explain the condition. It features Nikolai, who has the disease. He invites readers to learn about Parkinson's disease from his perspective, helping them to understand how the condition ...

Meet Jack - an older man with dementia. Jack invites readers to learn about dementia from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced by someone with dementia and the changes it causes to memory, communication and behaviour.