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Medicare for the Lazy Man is a quick and thorough guide created by a highly qualified expert. It will show how to slide through that encounter with Medicare and squirt out the other side with the best protection available on the market today. In very short order, listeners will learn exactly what needs to be done and when. Only here will they find the tools to buy some coverage online without being pestered by dopey insurance agents.

Everyone seems to be in a rush searching for ways to weight loss nowadays. A myriad of offers covering diets, health and food supplements, physical fitness programs, and various training workshops are flooding the entire health and fitness market. All these entail costs and effort on your part and mostly turn out to be not as effective as these marketers promised in their glamorous ads. However, there’s an ongoing solution that many are resorting to nowadays. Although it is not exempted from the opinions of cynics, it is a lot better than those options being offered in the market.

Expertly combining practical advice with Dr. Scharmaine Lawson, NP’s personal experience as a leading figure in the world of house calls, this complete handbook provides expert insights and essential strategies to help healthcare workers and nurse practitioners navigate the demands of in-home care and set up a flourishing house-call practice. With more and more people requiring in-home care, there has never been a better time to kick-start your house-call practice and familiarize yourself with house call procedures and culture.

Illness, disease, and aging aren't the only things attacking your wellness. The US healthcare system has failed to evolve like other industries, remaining fragmented and inefficient, unable to keep up with the changing needs of citizens, particularly those of Medicare age and veterans. But there is hope. Eventually, you or a loved one will be drafted onto the healthcare battlefield - and the best time to prepare is now.

There are over fifty million caregivers in the United States, as of 2020. That's one in five people providing UNPAID care to family, friends and loved ones. There is no discrimination in this statistic, it covers all races, creeds, backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, social classes, rich, poor and on and on. Only recently has it come to light that the stress and mental wear-and-tear on caregivers is not much different than the patients for whom they care.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is not the "insignificant" disorder some imagine it to be. The "Cost of illness" associated with ADHD in the US is estimated to be over $74 billion. ADHD is the most common mental health disorder among children worldwide. While there is no cure for ADHD, effective management is achievable with the right resources.

Can learning about Medicare actually be fun? Probably not, but it doesn’t have to be miserable like most books will make you feel. Medicare for the Lazy Man is a quick and thorough guide created by a highly qualified expert. It will show how to slide through that encounter with Medicare and squirt out the other side with the best protection available on the market today. In very short order listeners will learn exactly what needs to be done and when.

Whether he's initiating a coup d'état against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year-old who once called him a fat slut, Pope Lonergan's work is infinitely varied. This no-holds-barred account shows what life inside a care home is really like, for both residents and carers. Featuring night-time drama, incontinence pads and the uniquely dark humour of one double-amputee Alzheimer's patient, here you can learn everything you ever wanted to know (and a few things you probably really didn't) about Britain's care system.

It took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation's long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system.

In this book, award-winning journalist Beth Baker tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable.

When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair.

A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love by best-selling author Kate Mosse, a celebration of older people and ageing, and of finding joy in the smallest acts of everyday caregiving. As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some 8.8 million people in the UK. An invisible army of carers holding families together.

In Welcome to Caregiving: The Things Caregivers Never Talk About, Erin shares her many lessons as a caregiver. In her warm, witty way, she shines a light on what it means to be a caregiver for a transplant patient, down to the smallest and sometimes most embarrassing detail. Rather than merely explaining what pills to take at what time, or what symptoms require phone calls, Erin really shows what it means to be a caregiver.

Learn to understand and care for those with dementia or Alzheimer’s in this indispensable guide, winner of a 2021 Best Indie Book Award. If you are caring for a parent who has dementia or Alzheimer's disease, what do you do first and where can you get help? Written by a daughter who provided care for her mom, Life Giving Dementia Care is an easy-to-listen, non-technical Amazon best-selling book (May 2021) that walks you step-by-step through dealing with all stages of dementia or Alzheimer's care.

This audio bundle helps you quickly and easily lose weight. After years of making bodybuilders miserable, "If It Fits Your Macros" was born. IIFYM is a way to improve one's body composition by not relying completely on clean foods. Learn all about how you can benefit, and also discover the fundamentals of intermittent fasting and how it is one of the easiest way to lose weight while building lean muscle. Learn all the basics of food prepping, different foods that you can use to prep your meals in a lot of different ways, and how to prepare them the right and nutritious way.

In The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease, Dr. Jennifer Stelter, a psychologist working in memory care, shares a new model designed to help caregivers understand, cope with, and handle some of the most challenging behaviors associated with the disease while encouraging and reinforcing independence and quality of life for their loved ones.

In June of 2012, I suddenly found myself in a caregiving role with my dad overnight. Due to an accident my mother had, I stepped into a caregiving role that was unfamiliar and unexpected. I realized that you can know someone all your life but have no clue how to care for them physically, emotionally, and mentally. I also realized that caregiving stretches you in ways that you can't prepare for a head of time.

Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that fact but only get in the way and decrease quality of life.

Simple, imaginative activities and expressive therapies designed for caregivers to engage and connect with people living with dementia. Finding the creativity in the journey through dementia is a challenge millions of people face. One in three Americans knows someone with the disease. This practical book offers caregivers hands-on ideas for meaningful, creative activities they can do with their patients, family members, or friends who have dementia.

Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age 27, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own health, she moved to Togo, West Africa - ranked by the United Nations as the least happy country in the world - to care for sick and suffering patients. Serving without pay in a mission hospital, she pondered the intersection of faith and medicine in her quest to help make the world "well".