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Language
English
Description
Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother, Linda, was suffering from a rare form of dementia that slowly crippled her ability to talk, write and eventually recognize people in her own family. Where the Light...
Author
Language
English
Description
Read by the author.
In My Two Elaines, author Marty Schreiber, former governor of Wisconsin, watches his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman he fell in love with in high school, and who diligently supported his political career, to the Elaine who knows she is declining and can't remember how to cook a meal, and finally to the Elaine who no longer recognizes Marty or their children.
One part love story, one part
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries-- visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself-- Maggie faces some of the world's most exotic locales while...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 181 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Deeply in love, Cal and Mary brave divorce, marry, and help each other succeed in their work. Cal becomes a renowned inventor, Mary a best-selling author. Then Alzheimer's strikes. Cal faces his disease courageously, Mary finds ways to sustain their relationship despite it. While they don't beat Alzheimer's, it doesn't win either. Their love persists throughout and beyond their battle.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Dundee-Lakemont Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The unflinching and hopeful story of one woman's journey into family caregiving, and a vivid overview of the challenges of Alzheimer's care. With the passion of a committed daughter and the fervor of a tireless reporter, Martha Stettinius weaves this compelling story of caregiving for her demented mother with a broad exploration of the causes of Alzheimer's disease, means of treating it, and hopes for preventing it. She shares the lessons she's learned...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it dictate his life and instead asked himself: What makes life meaningful, and how do I want to live the rest of mine? His decision led them to learn about Dignitas and to fly to Zürich for a peaceful ending of Brian's...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and-- perhaps most heartbreaking...
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
On Pluto: inside the mind of Alzheimer's (paperback), 1 A loving voice II: a caregiver's book of more read-aloud stories for the elderly (paperback) ; 1 The secret garden (DVD), 1 Bird songs of the Northwoods (sound recording), Lazy day in the garden puzzle (300 pieces), Beautiful blossoms memory game, Remember that day scented sachet set, How does your garden grow? seed starter, Kit activity instruction card & Memory Kit survey : in clear plastic container ; 15 x 17 1/2 x 6 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A collection of activities, games, puzzles, and other resources to spark memories, create conversation, improve mobility and dexterity, and provide positive and engaging interactions.
On Pluto: "This is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Almost six million Americans -- about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five -- have Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. In My Father's Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father's descent into Alzheimer's alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured. In an intimate memoir rich...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sara was at the tender age of 12 when she found the skeleton in her prudish parents' closet: a series of novelty sex books crammed high up on a shelf in her childhood living room, all written by Sara's ordinary suburban dad, Ira. For decades the books were an unspoken secret in Sara's family until Ira developed early onset Alzheimer's disease...and announced he'd be reviving his novelty porn career. With Sara's help. In this cringe-worthy, unique,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 209 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
For close to ten years, writer Greg O'Brien, diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, has chronicled its progression as an embedded reporter inside the mind of this monster of a disease. Taking detailed notes and working off cognitive reserve, O'Brien offers an illuminating blueprint of strategies, faith, and humor needed to fight this disease, a day-to-day focus on living with Alzheimer's, not dying with it.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from-- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes-- in interests, goals, and behaviour-- until Tony...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating...
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