Recommended Books for Those Involved in Eldercare—Family, Residents, Caregivers, Regulators and Others
Recommended Books for Those Involved in Eldercare—Family, Residents, Caregivers, Regulators and Others
Elder Rage, or Take My Father ... Please! How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents by Jacqueline Marcell (see Steve's Book Review)
The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer’s…Related Dementing Illnesses and Memory Loss in Later Life—Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins
To Err is Human: Buliding a Safer Health System by the Institute of Health
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century by the Institute of Medicine
My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on An Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Health Policy and Nursing: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System by Harrington and Estes.
A Whole New Life—Reynolds Price
The Forgetting, Alzheimer’s: A Portrait of an Epidemic—David Shenk
The Oxford Book of Aging—Thomas Cole, Mary Winkler, editors
I Love My Grandpa, But…--Anna Diener Yoder
The Art of Aging—Sherwin B Nuland
How We Die—Sherwin B Nuland
Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent—Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, with Irwin Lebow
How to Care for Aging Parents—Virginia Morris
An Uncertain Inheritance, Writers on Caring for Family—Nell Casey, editor
Taking Care of Parents Who Did Not Take Care of You—Eleanor Cade
Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You—Robert Satow
A Bitter-Sweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—Jane Gross
Changing Places, A Journey with My Parents into Their Old Age—Judy Kramer
The Hard Questions for Adult Children and Their Aging Parents—Susan Piver
They’re Your Parents Too: How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without driving Each other Crazy—Francine Russo
The Merck Manual of Health and Aging—Mark H Beers, editor-in-chief, Thomas v Jones, Editor
The Mansions of Happiness: A History of Life and Death—Jill Lepore
Cheating Death—Sanjay Gupta
Chasing Life—Sanjay Gupta
Man’s Search for Meaning—Viktor Frankl
Faith in the Future: Healthcare, Aging and the Role of Religion—Harold Koening, Douglas Lawson
Death without Dignity, the story of the first nursing home indicted for murder—Steven Long
Livings through Mourning—Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Rules for Aging—Roger Rosenblatt (HUMOROUS—but humor can help in the aging and eldercare experience)
Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey ( a classic that should not have to be listed but has to be because there are still people out there who have not read—no studied and applied—the ancient wisdom wisely and succinctly articulated by Covey in this book)
This is Water - Some Thoughts on Living a Compassionate Life -- David Foster Wallace
A New Earth -- Eckhart Tolle
The Customer Comes Second -- Hal Rosenbluth & Diane Mcferrin Peters
What the Dog Saw -- Malcolm Gladwell
