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Moody Publishers We Shall All Be Changed
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Building Type Basics for Senior Living
Book SynopsisEssential information for the design of senior living facilities Building Type Basics for Senior Living, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for essential information you need to plan and successfully complete the design of residential care environments for seniors on time and within budget. Primary authors Bradford Perkins and J. David Hoglund and their Perkins Eastman colleagues?all experts in senior living design?share firsthand knowledge to guide you through all aspects of the design of senior living communities, including independent living and assisted living apartments, and skilled nursing facilities. This edition features new examples of completed projects and is up to date with the latest developments in senior living design, including coverage of sustainable design, renovation and reinvention, international opportunities, operations, and project financing. This new edition offers: Numerous photographs, diagrams, Table of ContentsPreface xvii Acknowledgments xix 1. Senior Living Today 1 State of the Industry 1 Design and the Aging Process 5 2. Programming & Planning Guidelines 13 Understanding the Marketplace 13 Programming Space Guidelines 14 Community Based Options 14 Long-Term Care 33 Hospice 60 Assisted Living Residences 64 Residences for Persons with Alzheimer’s and Dementia 82 Independent Living with Services 96 Continuing Care Retirement Communities 107 Active Adult Communities 119 Summary 123 3. The Future of Senior Living 125 Demographics 125 Consumers’ Expectations 126 Lifestyle Changes 129 Service Partnerships 135 New Housing and Care Concepts 139 Affordability 141 4. Project Process and Management 149 Planning, Design, and Implementation Process 149 Common Problems and Cautions 162 Conclusion 167 5. Site Planning, Parking, and Landscape Design 169 Site Size 169 Relationship to Adjacent Land Uses 171 Vehicular Circulation 171 Parking 173 Landscape Design 173 6. Building Codes 183 Codes and Regulations 184 Regulatory Issues 186 Waivers 191 Conclusion 192 7. Sustainability 193 Market Expectations 193 Calculating Cost Benefit 195 Strategies for Sustainability 196 8. Structural Systems 205 Considerations 205 Structural System Types 209 9. Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire-Protection, and Electrical Systems 215 The Interior Environment and Comfort for an Aging Population 215 Program and Concept 216 Applicable Codes 216 Program Impact on System Selection 217 Finished Ceilings and Building Height 219 Construction 220 Mechanical and Hvac System Options 222 Ventilation 227 Plumbing 229 Fire Protection 230 Electrical Distribution 231 Emergency Power 232 Lighting 233 10. Communications and Low-Voltage Electrical Systems 235 Systems Proliferation 235 Trends 240 11. Special Technologies 241 Remote Biometric Monitoring Systems 241 12. Products and Equipment 245 Medical Equipment 245 Universal Design 245 Mobility Devices 246 Food Service 246 Bathing Equipment 249 13. Acoustics 255 Key Acoustical Considerations 255 Design Guidelines for Specialized Spaces 258 Hearing‐Impairment Guidelines and Code Requirements 262 14. Lighting Design 265 Light Levels, Reflectance Values, and Glare 267 Lamping Options 268 Windows and Daylighting 269 Design Guidelines for Specialized Spaces 269 Conclusion 276 15. Interior Design 279 The Design Process 279 Color Theory 286 Wayfinding 287 Materiality 287 Interior Design Guidelines 289 Furniture and Furnishings 295 Process 298 16. Renovation, Restoration, and Adaptive Reuse 299 Long‐Term Care Facilities 299 Assisted Living Facilities 300 Independent Living Facilities 300 Cosmetic Renovation 301 Moderate Renovation 301 Major Renovation 301 Adaptive Reuse 305 17. International Challenges 307 Service Development 309 Programming and Design 310 Service and Socialization 313 Process 313 Aging at Home 314 Country‐Specific Issues 315 Conclusion 324 18. Operation and Maintenance 325 Introduction 325 Operations Costs 326 Ongoing Operating and Maintenance Costs 327 Durability, Useful Life, and Replacement Costs 329 19. Cost Management 335 Cost Management Program 335 Relative Costs 336 Value Engineering and Life Cycle Cost Analysis 336 20. Finances and Feasibility 343 Ten Steps to Financing 343 Financing Variations for Senior Settings 349 Appendix A: Unit Types and Sizes for Senior Living 351 Appendix B: Building Net-to-Gross Factors for Senior Living 352 Appendix C: Geriatric Clinic: Typical Program Components 353 Appendix D: Sample Large Outpatient Clinic Program 354 Appendix E: Sample Enhanced Retirement Community Clinic Program 355 Appendix F: Adult Day Care: Sample Program for 50 Participants 356 Appendix G: Long-Term Care Gross Area per Bed Guidelines 358 Appendix H: Typical Long-Term Care Program Components 359 Appendix I: Sample Program: Long-Term Care, 126 Bed, 4-Story (and Basement) Neighborhood/Household Model 360 Appendix J: Freestanding 75-Unit, 3-Story Assisted Living Facility with 20-Bed Memory-Support Neighborhood 366 Appendix K: Sample Program for 40-person Memory-Care Residence 369 Appendix L: Sample Program for Independent Living with Services Building—150 Units, 4 Stories, 2 Wings 371 Appendix M: CCRC Program 375 Appendix N: Enhanced CCRC Therapy Program 383 Glossary 385 Bibliography and References 395 Index 399
£76.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Through the Seasons
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor a person in memory care, keeping the mind engaged is vital for physical and mental well-being. Moreover, activities that engage the whole person and acknowledge their dignity are important to ensuring that they participate and find joy in the activity set before them. A new second edition of the book Through the Seasons: Activities for Memory-Challenged Adults and their Caregivers lays out 32 experiences for caregivers and memory-challenged adults to try together throughout the year.—Kristin Easterling, HomeCare MagazineTable of ContentsForeword, by Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPHPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. FallChapter 2. WinterChapter 3. SpringChapter 4. SummerResources for CaregiversAbout the Authors
£39.00
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Shift: How Seeing People as People Changes
Book SynopsisA vivid depiction and real-world example of the personal and institutional impact of the Arbinger Insititute''s transformative ideas (Leadership and Self-Deception; 1.4 million copies sold) within a healthcare organization--The HG nursing homes. In general, nursing homes are scorned healthcare institutions--but it was in these transformed HG homes that Kimberly White discovered a new way of "seeing" people and underwent her own personal transformation. Both HG and White shifted their perspective and mindset based on their adoption of The Arbinger Institute''s basic principles.Without realizing it, we tend to treat people as objects. We see them solely in terms of their usefulness to us. This invites tension and conflict, and changing this mindset is at the heart of the Arbinger Institute''s work. This book is a moving true story of an unhappy woman whose life and family were transformed when she began researching how Arbinger''s ideas were being implemented in nursing homes. Kimberly White was astonished to discover that those who choose to care for the elderly and ill, earning low pay in a maligned industry, were nevertheless full of satisfaction, compassion and love because of their ability to see their patients as real and true and valuable people. White''s research became a personal exploration of how to see the people in her own life as people in that same profound way. When she did, everything in her life and her world changed--and the reader''s will too.
£15.29
Seal Press (CA) Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and
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£23.25
Newmarket Press,U.S. When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home,
Book SynopsisNewly revised and updated, this acclaimed, complete guide delivers what people need to know to help an aging loved one--a must for all caregivers!Written by two distinguished psychologists for spouses, siblings, and adult children, this frank and highly useful guide is meticulously organized to provide answers, dispel myths, anticipate needs, and provide strategies for dealing with every aspect of in-home and facility care.With chapters on choosing the right placement setting, navigating the bureaucracy of today''s eldercare system, and determining how best to pay for services, this revised edition includes new information on: diagnosis interventions insurance, legal, and policy matters as well as updated checklists, phone and Internet lists, budget worksheets, and questionnaires.
£999.99
Hampton Roads Publishing Co When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your
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£15.19
Soft Skull Press MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and
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£14.41
Boutique of Quality Books The Family Caregiver's Guide
Book SynopsisCaring for a loved one at home. What’s really involved? And what does it mean for your family and future? Tens of millions of Americans have had these questions and more as they prepare for this unsettling yet necessary task. The Family Caregiver’s Guide fills in the gaps, connecting the dots between research and real life. Drawing on the author’s extensive caregiving experience, this book provides strategies to care for your loved one, inside and out, as well as for yourself—including how to use your natural skills in your new role, and which skills you may need to add. You’ll discover how to set up your home for caregiving, including a safety checklist, equipment suggestions, and words you should know. And for those days that are more than a handful, you’ll find positive affirmations, a section on facing and accepting illness, and smart steps at the end of each chapter, in case you need guidance in a hurry. Caregiving has both rewards and challenges. But through it all, you’ll discover what’s most important—that caregiving is love in action.
£13.25
Boutique of Quality Books The Promise I Kept: My Journey With Dad From Home
Book SynopsisA poignant, funny, and often heartbreaking story of a daughter struggling to keep her father out of a nursing home, this memoir will appeal to people caught in the sandwich generation: caring for both children and aging parents. For nearly a decade, Jackie watched over her father's care. She quickly found her world filled with adult diapers, a pharmacy of pills, and days heavily laced in utter boredom. As the days melted together, Jackie came to understand what her father was teaching her—how to live in constant gratitude and with a heart full of love.
£999.99
WriteLife LLC A Cup of Tea on the Commode - Large Print Edition
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£18.95
Companion Press,US A Leader's Manual for Dementia Care-Partner
Book SynopsisThe Dementia Care Partner’s Workbook is a new resource from Companion Press that is both a support group participant’s manual and self-study guide for care partners who have a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. Its ten concise lessons not only walk you through the types, brain biology, and progressive symptoms of dementia but also offer practical tips for managing behaviors, coping with emotional issues, prioritizing self-care, and planning ahead—everything from diagnosis to end-of-life.The Manual provides general information about establishing and leading support groups, counseling skills for leaders and co-leaders, how to handle challenging group participants, step-by-step instructions on how to run each of the ten individual weekly meetings (including meeting-specific handouts), and lots of practical advice.
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Catapult On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An essential book for those coping with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders that “reframe[s] our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and accuracy . . . to grant better futures to our loved ones and ourselves” (The New York Times). An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer''s erase parts of one''s memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don''t simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging, addressing not only the indignities caused by the condition but also by the rhetoric surrounding it. Harper asks essential questions about the nature of our outsized fear of dementia, the stigma this fear may create, and what it might mean for us all to try to “vanish well.” Weaving together personal stories with theology, history, philosophy, literature, and science, Harper confronts our elemental fears of disappearance and death, drawing on her own experiences with people with dementia both in the American healthcare system and within her own family. In the course of unpacking her own stories and encounters—of leading a prayer group on a dementia unit; of meeting individuals dismissed as “already gone” and finding them still possessed of complex, vital inner lives; of witnessing her grandfather’s final years with Alzheimer’s and discovering her own heightened genetic risk of succumbing to the disease—Harper engages in an exploration of dementia that is unlike anything written before on the subject. A rich and startling work of nonfiction, On Vanishing reveals cognitive change as it truly is, an essential aspect of what it means to be mortal.
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Catapult Landslide: True Stories
Book Synopsis“Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open-hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjects—grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things—are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. A swift, compelling read.” —Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me GoneMinna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays. These “true stories” explore the author’s complicated relationship with her mother—who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty-seven and died fifteen years later—and the ways in which their connection was long the “prime mover” of Proctor’s life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and triumphs of Proctor’s own life—shifting between America and Italy (and loving “being a foreigner, the constant sense of unfamiliarity that supplanted all of my expectations and disappointments”), her bumpy first marriage, the profound pleasure she takes in motherhood, and the confounding experience of trying to arrange a Jewish burial for her “Jewish, not quite Jewish” mother. Proctor has an integrity and humor that is never extinguished despite life’s mounting difficulties. She also slyly questions her own narrative throughout. “Not having told this story before means I never fixed many details in my memory,” she writes. “[I] have to rely on flashes, the transparent stills that hang in my mind, made of smell, the way the light casts, the wind on skin.” The essays in this book are a sharply intelligent exploration of what happens when death and divorce unmoor you from certainties, and about the unreliable stories we tell ourselves, and others, in order to live.
£12.34
Bookpress Publishing Play the Game
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Rutgers University Press Through Japanese Eyes: Thirty Years of Studying
Book SynopsisIn Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the panhuman experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence. Tsuji reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders’ lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, the author’s lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors’ lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society as Tsuji herself gets to know American culture and grows into senescence herself.Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research. Trade Review“Through Japanese Eyes is a warm and sympathetic portrait of mutual support and cooperation among older people in the United States. Spanning from the 1980s through to the present day, it reveals the value of long-term personal engagement with a research site and subject matter.” -- Iza Kavedžija * author of Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan *“Yohko Tsuji offers carefully crafted prose and an inviting tone that welcomes the reader to share her three decades of research on community-based aging. She begins with a critical overview of the anthropological scholarship on aging, giving students and colleagues a firm foundation in anthropological approaches to aging and why they are distinctly powerful. A native of Japan, she draws on both emic and etic perspectives in discussing how culture informs social networks based on mutual support, friendship, kinship, and proximity.” -- Maria Vesperi * co-editor of Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing *"Anthropologist examines aging in U.S. ‘Through Japanese Eyes,’" by Kate Blackwood https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/11/anthropologist-examines-aging-us-through-japanese-eyes * Cornell Chronicle *"Aging in America: Professors study offers hope for fear of getting old" by Matt Steecker * The Ithaca Journal *"Tsuji was born in Japan and came to the U.S. for college in the Seventies; she’s now an adjunct associate professor of anthropology on the Hill. Her new book, based on three decades of research at a senior center in Upstate New York, examines old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective, comparing how aging is experienced in her adopted and native countries. 'It seems that Americans detest old age because it represents the antithesis of the country’s cultural ideals. In other words, culture is the culprit for the plight of American elders,' Tsuji writes in the introduction. 'By contrast, Japanese culture seems to offer a neat prescription for the problems of old age: for example, co-residence with children, an emphasis on interdependence, and the Confucian ethics of filial piety.'” * Cornell Alumni Magazine *Made of Clay Review interview with Yohko Tsuji * Made of Clay *"The Gifts of Elders" by Yohko Tsuji * Triton Magazine *"I recommend the book for everyone." * The Plaza Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Japanese Names Introduction: Anthropology, Cultural Values, and Aging 1 Activities as Value at Lake District Senior Center 2 Elders Supporting Each Other to Help Themselves 3 Networking at Lake District Senior Center 4 Post-Retirement Housing and Living Arrangements 5 Who Supports Older Americans?: Families, Self, and Other Sources 6 Temporal Complexity in Older Americans’ Lives 7 Changes and Continuities Over Thirty Years of Research Conclusion: Challenges and Hopes in the New Frontier of Aging Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The Sutherland House Inc. The Accidental Caregiver: Wisdom and Guidance for
Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource for everyone concerned for the vulnerable people in their lives.Estimates suggest almost half of the adult population will someday be a caregiver, whether for an aging parent, an ailing partner, or a disabled family member. It is a role that tends to fall on people without warning, and almost certainly without preparation or training. Even Dr. Kimberly Fraser, a nurse who ran a large home support business, found it a struggle when her father and husband needed increasing levels of care. In this timely and urgently needed book, she gives readers sound, practical advice on how to meet with humanity and optimism the bewildering array of challenges facing caregivers: where to find help, how to navigate a confusing healthcare system, how to deal with constant demands, how to keep one’s own life from being overwhelmed by new responsibilities. Based on personal experience, prodigious research, and extensive interviews, The Accidental Caregiver is an invaluable resource for everyone concerned for vulnerable people in their lives and communities.
£14.24
The Sutherland House Inc. The Millenium Caregiver
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£16.14
World Health Organization World Report on Ageing and Health
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£43.77
