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How Chronic Illness or Disability Affects a Family

By Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health — 2021

Families—especially those who communicate openly—may be strengthened by experiences associated with managing their child’s health condition or disability.

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Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life

For more than two decades, hospice nurse Maggie Callanan has tended to the terminally ill and been a cornerstone of support for their loved ones. Now she passes along the lessons she has learned from the experts—her patients.

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Maggie Callanan
2025
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Making Toast: A Family Story

When Roger's daughter, Amy—a gifted doctor, mother, and wife—collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition at age thirty-eight, Roger and his wife, Ginny, leave their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren:...

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Roger Rosenblatt
2025
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No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days

When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day.

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Susan Allen Toth
2025
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How Erica and Spencer Shemwell Blended Their Big Families | The Blended Bunch

Erica and Spencer Shemwell have formed a new modern big family with their 11 kids—but blending two families isn’t always easy!

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2021
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Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief

Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It’s not about the usual techniques, but about how to manage on-going stress and grief.

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Pauline Boss
2011
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