| A family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer's Disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss later in life. | |
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Alzheimer's Disease: Caregivers Speak Out is a guide for families, friends, professionals, and students to better understanding those who have Alzheimer's disease and the people who care for them. Through their own heartfelt words and experiences, caregivers share feelings and ideas in an effort to teach others about this disease called Alzheimer s. |
| How to create a home environment that will help you cope with the many difficulties of Alzheimer's disease. Includes minimizing accidents and injuries, access denial issues, grab bar basics, activities of daily living, planning for a caregiving future, plus lots more. | |
| This is is a fact-based, hands on, caregiving book written by an in-home Alzheimer's caregiver. | |
| Eight women who lived through their husbands' declines talk frankly about how they faced the agonizing decisions they had to make and live with. | |
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Dr. Mathiasen's patients tell his story, beginning with the earliest signs of the disease and passing through its stages right up to the end. The book also offers insight into the science informing the treatment of Alzheimer's: how the diagnosis is made, how Alzheimer's often masquerades as severe clinical depression, and what promising research is being done in the field. |
| Alzheimer's - Caring For Your Loved One, Caring For Yourself |
Drawing on personal experiences of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's and a professional background in hospital, community, and nursing home settings, Sharon Fish looks at the facts about Alzheimer's and the realities caregivers face. |
| Taking Care of Caregivers inspires and empowers caregivers so that they can maintain their own health, happiness, and sanity in order to provide loving care for the person who is ill. | |
| Coping With Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementing Illnesses |
Practical tips for coping with everyday tasks, safety problems, and changes in personality or behavior. |
| This volume is written by a professional speech-language pathologist with more than 25 years experience in working with adults with communications disorders and with their families. | |
| The author has developed an array of techniques for prolonging self-care capabilities and slowing the effects of physical and mental degeneration. |
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