Redefining Aging: A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life
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Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving.
In this comprehensive book, bestselling author Ann Kaiser Stearns explores the practical and personal challenges of both caregiving and successful aging. She couples findings from the latest research with powerful insights and problem-solving tips to help caregivers achieve the best life possible for those they care for—and for themselves as they age.
Topics include:
- Improving the quality of life for the one giving and the one receiving care
- Distinguishing normal aging from early warning signs
- Understanding caregiver sadness, resentment, guilt, and grief
- Using strategies and skills to minimize an impaired elder’s distress and emotional outbursts and the caregiver’s own anxieties about growing old
- Finding resources to aid in the care of the loved one and protect the caregiver from stress overload
- Moving forward after the death of a loved one to have a meaningful life of one’s own
- Overcoming ageist stereotypes and deciding what kind of “old person” one will be
- Making life easier for those who someday will care for us
Redefining Aging will help readers think differently about caregiving and their own aging.
“Ann Kaiser Stearns offers a wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion of lessons learned about the joys and challenges of caregiving for a chronically ill loved one.” —Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, coauthor of The 36-Hour Day
Ann Kaiser Stearns
Dr. Ann Kaiser Stearns is the author of three books including the newly revised national best-seller, “Living Through Personal Crisis,” (published in seven languages with more than 1 million sold) and just out in a 2010 edition. She lectures widely around the country and has given more than 200 radio and television interviews nationwide. Her public television special, "Living Through Personal Crisis with Dr. Ann Kaiser Stearns" has aired nationwide more that 234 times since May and is available on DVD through this website. She has received the Maryland Psychological Association’s “Maryland Psychology Teacher of the Year" Award and “Excellence in Teaching” awards from both Johns Hopkins University and Loyola Colege.Dr. Stearns is a Professor of Psychology at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) and has often taught veteran officers at the Baltimore County Police Academy. She was formerly on the faculty of the Family Practice Residency Program at Franklin Square Hospital. Earlier in her career, Dr. Stearns was an associate chaplain at Michigan State University.Dr. Stearns received her Ph.D. in psychology from the Union Institute and University, the M.Div. degree from Duke University, and her B.A. from Oklahoma City University. She lives in Maryland and is the mother of two young adult daughters.
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