Alzheimer's
Disease Book Store
Useful books for family members and caregivers of
Alzheimer's patients.
Alzheimer's Play Pillow
Designed in loving memory of a mother who was a victim of the disease.
The Alzheimer's Store
The Alzheimer's Store offers products and gadgets for those caring for someone with Alzheimer disease.
Axistive Assistive Technology News
Offers free news, articles, product reviews, and product and vendor information on assistive technology devices.
The Caregiver Partnership
This site offers approximately 1,800 of the most commonly used products for home healthcare including incontinence, nutritional, diabetic, wound care, daily living, personal care and arthritis. The site promotes its product care specialists who all have personal caregiving experience.
ENABLE project
The project aims at facilitating independent living of people with early dementia and to promote their wellbeing through access to enabling systems and products. The site provides news articles, conferences, a list of products under development, as well as a few existing products that can be ordered via the web site.
Frontline
Publishing
Useful titles offered by this publisher include The
Nursing Assistant's Survival Guide (book, 1999), by
Karl Pillemer, Richard Hoffman and Marty Schumacher.
Pillemer is professor of human development at Cornell
and co-director of the Cornell Gerontology Institute.
Based on extensive research and interviews, the guide
provides coping and stress-reduction strategies to
help nursing assistants involved in long-term care
of patients with dementia and other challenging disorders.
The authors have also just launched The Resident Assistant,
a newsletter/professional journal tied to a continuing
education program for and about resident assistants
in assisted-living facilities. Upcoming issues include
topics such as improving communication, nutritional
risk and residents; working with residents' families;
managing aggressive residents; and dealing with death
and bereavement.
Medical
Alert Personalized Bracelets
MedicAlert products are for all medical conditions,
allergies or any information that emergency personnel
should know, remember "they speak when you can not."
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