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Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap, she takes it. One slip on the rug. That's all it took for Louise Wilt's daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time...
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Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect, then she's in a terrible accident... and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can't feed or dress herself. She can't even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with 24 hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria's husband to help care for her. But...
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 11
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Working as a caregiver for a sharp-tongued woman to rebuild after a painful loss, Faith McCallum unexpectedly falls for her client's charismatic son, who questions his fast-paced lifestyle in the wake of a chilling revelation.
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Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes. Some kill because of a twisted sense of mercy. Others let their monstrous egos take over as they seek to prove themselves the hero by rescuing those they harmed themselves. And then...
9) Good
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Payton becomes the caretaker of Gregory Devereaux, a wealthy man facing his final months. As they become close, Gregory's past sins force Payton to decide between his dreams and a pregnancy that could squander them all.
10) You're not you
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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An irresponsible college student becomes the caretaker for a classical pianist who was recently diagnosed with ALS.
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Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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A year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an eighty-two-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much we're willing to risk to claim one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance.
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Paraclete Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This dynamic video offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential-and difficult.
13) The upside [DVD]
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When a recently paroled ex-convict is hired to care for a quadriplegic man, they become friends and give each other a new perspective on life.
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Publisher
Brush Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this clear and honest guide for those loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick shares his double perspective as both a loving and grief-stricken husband coping with a profound change in his marriage, and as a geriatric psychiatrist pushing to learn and do as much as he can for his wife. Dr. Kirkpatrick tackles the tough questions about caretaking, grief, loss, love and sex for those whose partners have the disease. Whether your partner has...
15) Our friend [DVD]
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After receiving life-altering news, a couple finds unexpected support from their best friend, who puts his own life on hold and moves into their family home, bringing an impact much greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Avoiding relationships to focus on caring for her ailing father, Chloe is challenged to resolve the disparity between fiction and truth when her friend writes a screenplay about Chloe's romantically charged relationship with her too-good-to-be-true boss.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
When the health of her husband, a brilliant Shakespeare professor, starts declining, Pru, struggling on her own and feeling isolated, meets a man with whom the possibility of new romance blooms until her estranged stepson, a wealthy biotech investor, comes back into their lives.
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