What's So Funny about Long-Term Care?: Tips, Ideas, and Examples of How Patients and Caregivers Find Humor in Long-Term Care Internationally known for her “FUNdamentally Speaking” seminars, Dr. Patt Schwab, CSP has a unique ability to motivate others to rise above their problems through humor. This book is written especially for long-term caregivers and their patients. It is full of ways to make you laugh, relieve stress, share love and enrich your life and the lives of others. Inspirational stories from real life fill the pages of this book, demonstrating how patients struggling with crisis, death, and terminal diseases have added humor as a means of facing their personal trauma. Adapting ideas from these experiences Schwab provides the reader with step-by-step illustrations for sharing those sometimes slow-moving, extended, bedside visiting hours into fun projects, laughter and enjoyment. The book is filled with tips for caregivers and patients alike to use humor in taking the stress of difficult situations, to build trust in relationships. Dr. Schwab shares how laughter became the catharsis in her own experience through a lengthy healing process. I especially enjoyed the chapter “Act Eccentric!” The elderly are encouraged, through hilarious examples, to make age and infirmity, work to their advantage. The chapter “Fondle a Funny File” was packed full of easy-to-use suggestions, designed especially for long-term patients. The numerous quotes related to life, love, laughter and loss, were heartwarming, motivational, and inspirational. Filled with delightful illustrations the book is a great gift idea for a hospital visit, the doctor’s office, and should be on the coffee table in the reception area of every long term care facility. “What’s So Funny about Long-term Care?” is a book that will produce infectious laughter, friendships, and healing. |
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