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| Memory Tips for Making Life Easier |
Delivers just what the title promises. It's full of practical, everyday tips to sustain a strong and supple memory
and to aid professionals in working with clients who struggle with memory issues. Topics include: daily strategies,
budgeting time and making appointments, paying bills, organizing your home base, medical and safety issues, traveling,
and enjoying yourself. It's intended for healthcare professionals, family caregivers, and those who are currently or
anticipate struggling with the memory-related effects of aging.
$25.00 Add to Cart |
(Individualized Educational Plan for Special Education Professionals)
Author Shelley Peterman Schwarz has collaborated with professional office organizer
Nancy Kruschke McKinney to create a step by step guide to help you take control of organizing
the IEP process. From organizing your paperwork and data collection to tracking, reviewing,
and evaluating IEPs, to communicating with all the people involved in the process, learn basic
tips, techniques, shortcuts, and guiding principles to help you become more organized so you
can spend more time doing what you really love to do - TEACH!
Includes a Win/Mac CD with a printable PDF of all the forms in the book.
"Thank you, for the wonderful gift of your book! It is outstanding! I have shared it with all the people in my building and everyone agrees, it is something we all will truly use."
Deb Beuchel, teacher of the Deaf
"I... quickly got excited about how much good organizing information is in this "small book!" It was a stroke of genius that you two teamed up…Thank you for allowing me to reap the benefits of your knowledge!"
Maureen Shea, school psychologist
$25.00 Add to Cart |
| Dressing Tips and Clothing
Resources for Making Life Easier |
Dressing Tips and Clothing Resources for Making Life Easier offers hundreds of tips and techniques to help you find clothes that best suit you, modify your garments to make them easier to put on and take off, and learn new ways to dress yourself or another person. The resource section lists more than 100 businesses that offer specially designed or adapted clothing for people of all ages and abilities—making it easier to look your best at work, play, and all the times in between. It's an invaluable resource for people with special dressing needs, people with disabilities, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
Excerpts from Dressing Tips and Clothing Resources:
Example Dressing Tips
Example
of the Resource Section
"I love your book... Your book ought to be in everyone's library."
Adrian's Closet
"I would love to look at clothes which do not require me to have elastic waist style, or drawstring. I would like to look charming too."
Ruth, reader with chronic illness
$19.00 Add to Cart |
| 250 Tips for Making
Life with Arthritis Easier |
250 Tips for Making Life with Arthritis Easier is full of creative and useful ideas to make all the little daily tasks of household management easier, less frustrating, and more enjoyable. You will learn valuable information on organizing your household, doing household chores, and making your home more accessible. This book is perfect for people living and working with all levels of physical ability. If you have arthritis, a caregiver, or a healthcare professional, you will find ways for making life easier.
Excerpts from 250 Tips for Making Life with Arthritis Easier:
The Table of Contents
A Note from the Author
Tips
from Pages 42-43
"Everyone affected by arthritis learns by trial and error how to accomplish common tasks. By reading this book, a person with arthritis can eliminate some frustrations and feel more productive."
Bernard R. Rubin
Chief, Division of Rheumatology
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ft. Worth, TX
"250 Tips for Making Life with Arthritis Easier is just as the title describes. This book will be a valuable practical contribution to every person with arthritis."
Stephen B. Miller, MD
Department of Rheumatology
The Emory Clinic, Inc., Atlanta, GA
$9.95 Add to Cart |
| Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making
Life Easier (2nd Edition, 2006) |
Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier features tips, techniques, and shortcuts to adapt, organize, and simplify your life so you can conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making life easier, and increase the number of "good days" so you can do more of the things you want to do. Some topics include: Home Safety and Accessibility, Computers and Technology, Looking Good, Feeling Better - Grooming and Dressing, Managing Mealtime, Taking Care of You, Managing Your Healthcare, Hobbies and Leisure Activities.
For those with MS, or any debilitating illness, their family, and healthcare professionals.
Excerpts from Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life
Easier:
The Table of Contents
A Note from the Author
Tips
from Pages 40-41
"Positive attitudes are hard won when they are real. Your radiance comes right off the page."
Martha King,
National Director of Publications
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
"Your attitude and approach of affirmations and keeping things as positive as possible (with humor) has prompted me to approach today and tomorrow with a little more enthusiasm."
Marissa-Lucia Davis, reader with MS
$16.95 Add to Cart |
| Parkinson's Disease:
300 Tips for Making Life Easier (2nd Edition, 2006) |
Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier features tips, techniques, shortcuts, as well as local, state, and national resources specifically for people with Parkinson's Disease and their helpers. It includes special sections on staying positive, communicating, and mobility, along with hundreds of tried and true tips, techniques for making life with Parkinson's easier. This book will be welcomed by those who have PD, as well as their families, friends, and healthcare professionals.
“Shelley's advice is advice that you didn't learn at school, won't get from doctors, and, probably, your mother never told you. Shelley knows that help is available and tells you where to find it.”
George T. Merriman – Living with Parkinson’s disease
“This book gave me great ideas on how to take care of, prepare for the future and deal with my husband's PD. Very informative!”
Jennifer M. Molnar – Caregiver
$16.95 Add to Cart |
| Blooming Where You're
Planted: Stories from the Heart |
 Blooming
Where You're Planted: Stories from the Heart (1998) features
warm, humorous, and insightful tales about Shelley's journey from
her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) twenty years ago to the
present. Stories include "Why Has Our Marriage Survived?," "From
Diagnosis to Acceptance," "Giving In Doesn't Mean Giving Up,"
"Creating a Happy Life," and many others. This book provides anyone—from
people with MS or other chronic illnesses, to their friends, families,
and caregivers—with an invaluable perspective on ways to
flourish under difficult circumstances and live life to the fullest.
The 132-page book features large print and spiral bounding for
easy reading and page turning.
Excerpts from Blooming Where You're Planted: Stories from the
Heart:
The Table of Contents
Introduction
"Your writing made me cry and made me cheer as I'm sure it did for plenty of others. What a wonderful gift you give to others... I'll be sharing your writing with my patients."
Sharon Kopenski, RN
"...one of the most moving, beautifully written pieces I've ever read. You conveyed such personal feelings in such a pure, simple, exquisite way that I am sure everyone who read it was touched."
Jill Muehrcke, Managing Editor, NONPROFIT WORLD
$12.95 Add to Cart |
| A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul |
A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul is a compilation of 101 stories that that will inspire and encourage, move you to tears, and cause peals of laughter as it celebrates being a woman. "Judy's Birthday," tells how, despite its many challenges, Shelley Peterman Schwarz gave herself permission to accept help from her friends to overcome her disability and join them to celebrate a friend's special birthday. You will find her story, as well as the 100 others in this book, heartwarming, uplifting, and hopeful.
$12.95 Add to Cart |
| Jewish Mothers Tell
Their Stories—Acts of Love and Courage |
A poignant collection of personal stories celebrating what it means to be a Jewish mother. Author Shelley Peterman Schwarz tells of her suicidal thoughts and struggle to harmonize her vision of what a Jewish mother ought to be with the limitations that multiple sclerosis (MS) put on her life.
Her inspirational story, "How a Paper Clip Changed Our Lives," as well as those shared by others in this book, will give you a deeper understanding and appreciation of that heart, body, and soul that is the Jewish mother.
$24.95 Add to Cart |
| Amazingly Simple Lessons We Learned After 50 |
Amazingly Simple Lesson We Learned After 50 offers a collection of uplifting stories relating lessons learned and wisdom gained through living. "A Listening Ear," by inspirational author and speaker Shelley Peterman Schwarz, relates the wise advice she received from her father about how being a good listener is "one of the best ways we can respect and reward all those people who make a difference in our lives." Amid these pages you will find words of wisdom for all ages.
$19.95 Add to Cart |
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