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"When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimers disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-prepared. Dozens of decisions will need to be made:Can Mom live by herself safely? If not, what if she refuses to leave her home?When do I need to take away the car keys and checkbook?How do I deal with her obstinate refusal to take a bath or go to the doctor?Should I correct her when she insists her long-dead sister is still alive or that...
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When his father was diagnosed with cancer, documentary filmmaker Adam Wishart couldn't find a book that clearly answered his most basic questions: What was the disease and how did it take hold? What is it about cancer's biology that makes it hard to eradicate? And most importantly, are we on the way to a cure?
One in Three is both a son's personal story and a journalistic take on cancer's history, outlining the encouraging story of science's progress...
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Approximately six million people have some form of dementia in North America, and they each have an average of five care partners. This number is growing each year and will continue to grow until a cure is found. There are books that are very clinical and books that are fictional, but Dementia in the Family provides clinical information in lay terms within a true story of how dementia affects not just the person with the disease, but everyone around...
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For many families, a diagnosis of dementia is an ending. For Deborah Shouse, it was a beginning, "My mother taught me how to celebrate and appreciate what we have right now." Through her mother's dementia, Deborah discovered compassion, deepening love, and increased connection with her mother and her family. Love in the Land of Dementia offers hope to family members, friends, and care partners of people who are living with memory loss. Strong, fluid...
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"Finding the connection with a loved one afflicted with dementia is a challenge millions of people face: One in ten Americans has a family member with Alzheimer's, and one in three knows someone with the disease. This book offers care partners practical, hands-on ideas for meaningful, creative activities they can do with their patients, family members, or friends who have dementia. It also includes creative tips for busy care partners, offering quick...
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When her alcoholic and emotionally abusive mother's health declines, Joan Rough invites her to move in with her. Rough longs to be the "good daughter," helping her narcissistic mother face the reality of her coming death. But when repressed memories of childhood abuse by her mother arise, Rough is filled with deep resentment and hatred toward the woman who birthed her, and her dream of mending their tattered relationship shatters. Seven years later,...
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"A powerful, ground-shifting account of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, "Joy!" The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a page-turning memoir that offers insight into the "altering world of the dementia mind." During that time, Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within-and sometimes yielded an almost Zenlike...
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