Books about Nursing Homes, Long Term Care

Books about nursing home costs, selecting a nursing home, caring for a loved one in a nursing home. Selected from our family's experience with caring for parents in a nursing home.

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Life in a nursing home can seem hopeless, but it doesn't have to be that way. In our own experience, we've seen what a difference simple things like a garden can do to overcome the sameness of living in a long term care facility. This book describes how a home in New York has fought the despair and loneliness with positive, inspiring programs. This book will open your mind to how nursing home life should be.

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Life Worth Living:
How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home - The Eden Alternative in Action

by William H. Thomas    paperback; 232 pg.; 1996

"This book offers a splendid solution for those who feel that death might be the best alternative to old age. A provocative, inspiring, hopeful work."  Booklist, Patricia Hassler

Len Hansen, “Mainly for Seniors"
"worthwhile and perhaps lifesaving reading for mature adults and their adult children"


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Notes from Our Bookshelf:
This is a beautifully written, sensitive book. It will make you wish there were more people like Thomas Gass working in nursing homes. Reaches into your spiritual side, as well as your practical.

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Nobody's Home:
Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide

by Thomas Edward Gass, Bruce C. Vladeck     paperback; 189 pg.; 2005

"Gass dives in and brings to the surface immensely rich stories out of an environment full of pain and decrepitude."  The San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2004

Publishers Weekly
"This honest and heartfelt book is a firsthand account of the reality of life in a nursing home. "


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Notes from Our Bookshelf:
The ultimate do-it-yourself guide: how to arrange for your elder years in your comfortable and familiar home instead of a long term care facility. Once you read this, you'll never think about old age with the fear and worry so many of us have. Instead, you'll start planning.

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There's No Place Like (a Nursing) Home:
4 Powerful Steps That Will Change Your Life

by Karen Shoff     paperback; 170 pg.; 2002

This is a very helpful and ultimately optimistic book that makes it easier to deal with a difficult subject.   Fred Brock, New York Times, August 10, 2003

Lenore Weitzman, Author
This exciting book could save your life...easy to read, optimistic and sensible...full of loving caring, life-affirming help.


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Notes from Our Bookshelf:
We wish we had this guidebook to help us when we first started caring for Dad, and then Mom after he entered the nursing home. Check lists and "do these" steps remind you of what you've overlooked, especially during emotional times. A good resource to use when discussing caring for your parents with siblings.

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The Complete Eldercare Planner Second Edition:
Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help

Joy Loverde     paperback; 336 pg.; 2000

"The book is the best we saw"   American Medical Association

White House Conference on Aging
"Joy offers realistic solutions to the eldercare crisis every American faces today"


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Notes from Our Bookshelf:
Another one that would have been a great help to us when we first faced the nursing home dilemma. Particularly useful are the suggestions of what to ask for and how to say it, whether it be to your parent, or to a nursing home administrator. An easily understood book, certainly not above the everyday reader.

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Nursing Homes : The Family's Journey
Peter S. Silin     paperback; 304 pg.; 2001

"This book is a complete guide to the family's complex journey of placing someone in a nursing home"   Journal of Gerontological Nursing

Los Angeles Times
"...includes wonderful advice on how ...one can influence what goes on inside a nursing home... "


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