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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£22.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472288486 | ISBN 10: 1472288483
***Finalist for The Orwell Prize of Political Writing*** ‘A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation... I can’t recommend it highly enough’ ROB DELANEY ‘A radical vision for how we might do things better in future’ ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800810006 | ISBN 10: 1800810008
A reassuring, expert-informed handbook for ordinary people caring for loved ones. Whether due to old age, illness or disability, more and more of us are becoming carers to loved ones. Carers and Caring is a complete handbook for anyone i ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788162623 | ISBN 10: 1788162625
A rallying cry for carers and the acts of love that hold families together, from bestselling novelist Kate Mosse. 'Inspiring' GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' INDEPENDENT 'I loved it' ADAM KAY 'Beautiful' MATT HAIG 'Luminous' NICCI GERRARD 'Ess ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783783816 | ISBN 10: 1783783818
Long before the pandemic, care work has been underpaid and its values disregarded. In this remarkable and compassionate book, Madeleine Bunting speaks to those on the front line of the care crisis, struggling to hold together a crumbling in ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846148774 | ISBN 10: 1846148774
Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016 When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately tr ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849056540 | ISBN 10: 1849056544
Carers are particularly vulnerable to feeling stressed, worried and worn down by the vast demands that often come with caregiving, be they physical, psychological or emotional. Mindfulness can be enormously beneficial to carers, whether professional ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847082695 | ISBN 10: 1847082696
At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them fr ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780749940652 | ISBN 10: 0749940654
We're all living longer than ever. But there is, inevitably, a point when most of us have to face the fact that Mum or Dad - or both - really do need more help. For many, the responsibility of supporting their parents and aiding them to make the righ ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906021993 | ISBN 10: 1906021996
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2010 WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL WELLCOME PRIZE 2009 Can our personalities be taken away from us? Are memory and identity mutually dependent? What exactly is the soul? Three years ago, Andrea Gillies, a wri ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780743295314 | ISBN 10: 0743295315
Approximately 10 million people in the UK are over 65 - and that number is growing fast. Every year, thousands of people face the traumatic challenges brought about by their ageing parents' ailing health. The question of care places a huge burden of ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415952880 | ISBN 10: 0415952883
Many books address the issue of caring for one's aging parents, but this will be the first book to consider the topic from the parents' perspective. Cheryl A. Kuba proposes an entirely unique approach to this aspect of gerontology: expressing t ... more
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