Dear Alzheimer's

Dear Alzheimer's PDF Author: Keith Oliver
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784508985
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Keith Oliver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2010, and has since become a leading activist for dementia care, and an international speaker. Telling his story through a diary format, this book gives an unparalleled insight into what day-to-day life with dementia is like, and how he continued to live a full life after diagnosis.

Dear Dementia the Laughter and the Tears

Dear Dementia the Laughter and the Tears PDF Author: Ian Donaghy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781874790860
Category : Dementia
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Using over 100 illustrations and captions, Ian Donaghy captures the emotion and the reality of living with dementia. He has a message for all those touched by dementia - those living with dementia, their carers and all professional staff.

Dear Alzheimer's

Dear Alzheimer's PDF Author: Keith Oliver
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784508985
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Keith Oliver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2010, and has since become a leading activist for dementia care, and an international speaker. Telling his story through a diary format, this book gives an unparalleled insight into what day-to-day life with dementia is like, and how he continued to live a full life after diagnosis.

Dear Girl

Dear Girl PDF Author:
Publisher: Clavis
ISBN: 9781605376325
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Dear Braveheart

Dear Braveheart PDF Author: Sheridan Rondeau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781990326127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Imagine being lost, then found, then lost again. Imagine being giddy in love with a man who is slipping away from you bit by bit. This is the heartbreak that I endured. This is the story of my journey as a caregiver and the route I chose to get my husband and me safely to the end. Research shows that more than half a million Canadians have Alzheimer's disease or related dementia. Those suffering from it lose their memory and ability to think properly. What was more frightening, for me, was the profound changes to Tony's mood and behaviour. As Alzheimer's disease heaped indignity after indignity upon him, I struggled to maintain my equilibrium. My natural optimism took a pounding. I was often crushed, often weepy. Sometimes I gathered my dog and my car keys and was ready to bolt. If you are a caregiver, you will see yourself in this book. If you have just learned that your partner, parent or other loved one has Alzheimer's disease, you will find insight and hope.

Staying Afloat in a Sea of Forgetfulness

Staying Afloat in a Sea of Forgetfulness PDF Author: Gary Joseph LeBlanc
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462877079
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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When my father was first diagnosed with Alzheimers, I read and researched everything I could get my hands on about the disease. Right off the bat I could tell if it was written by a physician, pharmaceutical company or even a nursing home. When caregivers are looking for help, the last thing they need is medical text so complex they already forgot what they read by the time its laid back down. This is what got me started on writing about common sense caregiving, which turned into a weekly column and now into this book. My goal is to make this book as caregiver friendly as possible. Sharing my triumphs and hardships from my plus three-thousand day campaign in dealing with the disease of Alzheimers and the world of memory-impairment. Gary Joseph LeBlanc is a columnist, speaker and book dealer from Spring Hill, Florida. He was the primary caregiver of his beloved father stricken with Alzheimers disease for nearly the past decade. LeBlancs weekly column appears in the Hernando Today, a Tampa Tribune Publication and other health publications. His writings offer insight and hope through his own journey of caregiving, dealing with the memory-impaired, given in a caregiver friendly manner.

Dear Clueless

Dear Clueless PDF Author: Sandra Savell
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 149695825X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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At the time this book was written, the youngest person recorded with Alzheimer's Disease was 28 years old. Since I learned about Alzheimer's with my maternal grandmother suffering from and succumbing to the disease in the 1980's, the ages of Alzheimer's patients have been steadily becoming younger and younger. In my mother's memory care unit was an educator who died of early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 53. There is a new diagnosis of Alzheimer's every 67 seconds and it is estimated that one in every three people in the United States will have Alzheimer's by the age of 85. This disease lasts from 2 - 25 years. If this trend continues then every family in this country will be visited by Alzheimer's and the affects on caregivers will also affect this nation. This book is both a personal story of a decade-long journey of caregiving as well as a call to arms for funding and research of this terminal disease.

Talking with Dementia, Reconsidered

Talking with Dementia, Reconsidered PDF Author: Keith Oliver
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335251293
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The aim of the book is to extend understanding and knowledge of the lived experience of dementia through analysis of current research and in-depth conversations about dementia with a range of people living with the condition in the UK. It draws upon previous work on the “the experience of dementia” in the book Dementia Reconsidered – Revisited, 2nd edition, alongside an exploration of key concepts of Tom Kitwood’s original text. A key aim and unique feature of the book is to give a voice to people with dementia and to link this with issues in dementia care, frameworks, policy and practice.

Nancy Dear, Dear Nancy

Nancy Dear, Dear Nancy PDF Author: Daniel Austin
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638147752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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During this past January, I admitted my wife of fifty-five years, Nancy Austin, to a memory care facility as she increasingly needed special care with the diagnosis of dementia. Within six weeks, a lockdown occurred during which our family saw her only through a windowpane. Talking with her depended on the availability of staff cell phones, always unpredictable. The grandchildren, children, and friends tried to touch her, a scene repeated often, leading to painful and frustrating moments. I decided to write a series of essays about Nancy for our children and grandchildren, which they never knew, memories that reached out wrapped in love and respect for others during the ensuing weeks and months of the pandemic. Soon other relatives and friends wanting to read them finally led to their publication. The reader may find similar experience, if not the same kind of storylines, as the pandemic is teaching us how to touch our loved ones.

Dialogue and Dementia

Dialogue and Dementia PDF Author: Robert W. Schrauf
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317916603
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement. The book aims to identify and describe specific linguistic devices or strategies at the level of turn-by-turn talk that promote and extend conversation, and to explore real-world engagements that reflect these strategies. Final reflections tie these linguistic strategies and practices to wider issues of the "self" and "agency" in persons with dementia. Thematically, the volume fosters an integrated perspective on communication and cognition in terms of which communicative resources are recognized as cognitive resources, and communicative interaction is treated as reflecting cognitive engagement. This reflects perspectives in cognitive anthropology and cognitive science that regard human cognitive activity as distributed and culturally rooted. This volume is intended for academic researchers and advanced students in applied linguistics, linguistic and medical anthropology, nursing, and social gerontology; and practice professionals in speech-language pathology and geropsychology.

Understanding Young Onset Dementia

Understanding Young Onset Dementia PDF Author: Marjolein de Vugt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000414094
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Understanding Young Onset Dementia provides a state-of-the-art overview of approaches to care and evaluation for people with young onset dementia. It reviews the challenges in providing care and services, outlines new innovations in treatment and explores the impact of the condition to offer guidance about best practice in care. Written by world-leading researchers and experts in the field, this book gives key evidence for best practice and focuses on lived experience of those with young onset dementia. It has a broad focus looking at aspects of care beyond diagnosis and gives a comprehensive summary of the current qualitative and quantitative research in the field of young onset dementia. This international collaboration fills a much-needed gap in the academic market and is vital to guide learning and deliver future innovations. This book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students in the field of mental health and dementia research. It will also appeal to neurologists, psychiatrist, geriatricians and psychologists looking to update their knowledge or already working in the field.