The Book Company: New Products - Eldercare

Elder Care Catastrophe (Rituals of Abuse in Nursing Homes and What You Can Do About it)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:39:58 +0000

This is the only book to use systematic research and sociological theory to analyse resident neglect and abuse in nursing homes.

Price: $280.00

Care Ethics and Art

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:32:41 +0000

What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices which might forge an alternative ethic..

Price: $233.99

Count on Me

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:37:15 +0000

Count on Me exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface. Tia is raising a baby when her older brother Tristan gradually takes over their ailing parents’ bank account, house, and medical decisions. Through a web of complex family dynamics, Tia u..

Price: $18.95

Introduction to Senior Transportation (Enhancing Community Mobility and Transportation Services)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:57:35 +0000

This textbook introduces the challenges faced by older adults as they transition from driving themselves to using various transportation options, emphasizing the physical and cognitive limitations of older passengers.

Price: $249.99

Everything to Everyone (How to Wrangle Kids, Work, Aging Parents, and Spouses... When You Just Want a Nap)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:05:25 +0000

A Boston Globe journalist reframes the pressures of midlife and maps a more fulfilling way forward for Gen X and Millennial women.

When Kara Baskin found herself losing her mom while working full time and caring for young childre..

Price: $30.00

Caring for Music (Musical Life, Late Life)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:40:24 +0000

Caring for Music presents a groundbreaking ethnographic study of musical engagement in residential care, revealing how music becomes a medium of connection, pleasure, and relationship rather than merely an intervention for symptom management.

Price: $233.99

Memory Care (Essays on Forgetting)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:25:49 +0000

Memory Care traces a daughter’s relentless search for a version of her family that she can bear to remember. Jennifer C. Nash travels across the nation in a quest to find memories of the person her mother was before Alzheimer’s began to claim her mind. Nash is consumed by the desire to reme..

Price: $103.95

Friend Aholic (Confesiones de una adicta a la amistad) (Spanish Edition)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:38:36 +0000

Como sociedad, existe una tendencia a elevar el amor romántico. Pero ¿qué pasa con las amistades? ¿No son iguales o más importantes? Entonces, ¿por qué es difícil encontrar las palabras adecuadas para expresar lo que significan para nosotros estos vínculos? En Friendaholic: Confesiones de una adic..

Price: $25.99

The Dementia Care Training Library: Starter Pack (A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:19:37 +0000

The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to enable professionals working in relevant care services to deliver in-house training. The foundation Starter Pack provides core introductory modules on dementia awareness and challe..

Price: $128.00

Zen Caregiving (How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Others)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:02:00 +0000

Practical advice, emotional support, and a path to spiritual solace

One in five American adults is now a caregiver. And many have found themselves unprepared for this difficult and emotionally taxing task. As a caregiver himself, and executive director of Zen Caregiving ..

Price: $19.95