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04 - Second Acts: creating the life you
really want  by Stephan Pollan
and Mark Levine offera blueprint for creating a life of personal fulfillment.
It starts with taking the timeto take stock of yourself, exploring your
strategical options, and creating your personalroadmap for effective change.
Readers will find a series of exercises designed to focus onwhat we want to
do with our life, then act of that direction with resolve and purpose.The
authors identify 12 obstacles to personal fulfillment, offer nine building
blocks fordeveloping a positive mindset, and blueprint the process for
creating the new you, yourSecond Act. The Second Act is the authors' idea of
a script one might follow to createa re-newed life. Pollan and Levine offer
impressive real-life examples of spectacularsuccess stories that make their
case for Second Acts. "Creating the Life You Really Want",260,
2003. Harper Collins Publishers, New
York, NY. $22.95. "Growth is the
only real proof that one isindeed alive, not just existing. Continued growth
is the only real proof of hope for better life. Second Acts transforms these
concepts into action for those who understand the meaningof life and a life
well-lived." AgeVenture News, Boca Raton, Florida, www.demko.com
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05 - Sending Mama to Her Room  by Judy Hoyt
Pettigrew is a refreshing wayto explore the issues of aging and caregiving.
Without abandoning the need to educate thereader about the trials and
tribulations of family caregiving, the author offers light-heartedhumor to
motivate the reader to keep moving through every page of knowledge that the
bookhas to offer. The book is targeted to all women under the age of 70, says
the author,because they are the most likely group to assume the role of
caregiver. Research supportsthat notion. Daughters, even daughters-in-law,
are society's caregiver of choice when itcomes to eldercare. Twenty-four
mini-chapters focus on real life caregiver issues. Topicsinclude "Let
the Caregiving Begin", "A Day in the Life", and
"Caregiver's Bill of Rights".Short stories, anecdotes, and poetry
are cleverly utilized to commmunicate the wealth ofpractical information.
"Sending Mama to Her Room", 112 pages, 2002. Seven Locks Press,Santa Ana, CA. $10.95
(US). 1-800-354-5348. "It's true. Great gifts do comein small packages.
"Sending Mama to Her Room" confronts the often grime realities of
familycaregiving with wit, humor, and loads of sound advice. A quick read,
but not because thebook is small. It's because once you pick it up, you just
can't put it down. Hurrah forPettigrew who has discovered that the way to a
caregiver's heart is through their funnybone." AgeVenture News, Boca
Raton, Florida, www.demko.com
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06 - Caregiver Guide: tips for caregivers of people
with Alzheimer's disease is a free educationalguidebook for the
caregivers of those with Alzheimer's. Don't let the "free" give
youany impression about the guidebooks real value. Concise, authoritative,
and practical,this is one of the finest resources of its kind. A join
publication of the NationalInstitute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Disease
Center (ADEAR), readers will findpractical types for everyday caregiving.
Topics address how to deliver personal caresuch as bathing and dressing,
activities and exercsise, coping with incontinence, sleepproblems,
hallucinations, wandering and home safety, precautions about driving, andtips
for selecting a nursing home. Also see the guide's listing of national
organizationsoffering additional help for the caregiver. The guidebook's
up-to-date information on Alzheimer's is based on research from Duke University
and Johns Hopkins University.
"Caregiver Guide", 23 pages, 2001. ADEAR
Center Publishing, Silver Spring, MD.
The
National Institute on Aging's guidebooks, age-pages, and special reports
always represent the very best in consumer educationliterature. This guide is
the perfect example." AgeVenture News, Boca Raton, Florida,
www.demko.com
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