My Bert Has Alzheimer S

Author : Paula de Ronde
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039129238

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My Bert Has Alzheimer's by Paula de Ronde Pdf

My Bert Has Alzheimer’s is an intimate, detailed account of a wife’s experience with her husband’s dementia. As Paula de Ronde quickly learned, life for two people — patient and caregiver - is thrown into disarray with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Ambushed by the disease, it is a journey into the unknown, but one that features an abundance of love, hope, and support. There is no shying away from the horror of the disease, but its awfulness doesn’t strip from the experience of the powerful companions that accompany those enduring it — namely, love, laughter, and community. Thrust into the caregiver role for her other half who used to be her equal and best buddy, making all kinds of decisions together, Paula now enters a new world of uncertainty and chaos. There is no roadmap. Instead she learns that the disease is as individual as each person who contracts it. Here is a caregiver’s poignant and revealing story of the mental, physical, and emotional stress of caring for the love of her life, her Bert, as he gives over to his neurological disease. The caregiver’s life is far from easy. Yet fueled by love, which never wanes, each step of the way is handled with grace and the help of care partners. Alzheimer’s steals memories but also gives teaching moments. As the disease progresses Paula learns to be more tolerant, patient, compassionate and accepting of human frailties. Alzheimer’s releases an inner strength. She meets each challenge, finds a solution to each issue that arises, then passes on her new-found knowledge to others. She learns the value of having a support group. Alzheimer’s cements the old adage that laughter is the best medicine. Together she and her Bert become stronger than the disease. With humour, compassion, wisdom, and deep feeling, she describes this slice of their conjoined lives. More than a record of the impact of a disease this is, at its essence, also a love story.

Author : R Lynn Barnett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780983783114

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My Mother Has Alzheimer's and My Dog Has Tapeworms A Caregiver's Tale by R Lynn Barnett Pdf

This book is about how we dealt with my mom with Alzheimer's. It's written with humor and heart.

Author : Brian Scott Edwards M.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781796013399

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I Am Waiting for When I Forget I Have Alzheimer’s Disease by Brian Scott Edwards M.D. Pdf

This is a different type of book on Alzheimer’s. There are no claims on how to prevent this dementia. There are no claims on how to cure Alzheimer’s. In a cancer diagnosis, the patient can fight and win. In Alzheimer’s, no one has fought and won. Don’t fight, have fun. The patient’s time is limited, so instead of looking for false nostrums, look on how you can improve your relationships with people and socialize. This book is not about the futility of treating Alzheimer’s. I will leave that to the many trials that have been done. This book is about how I adjusted to the shock of the diagnosis and then went on to live the best life I possibly could.

Author : Wong Chai Kee
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789810732165

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Even When She Forgot My Name by Wong Chai Kee Pdf

Even When She Forgot My Name serves to inspire and educate caregivers of all kinds, giving them strength and hope as they attend to aged relatives and friends. Together with a few scattered illustrations, certain pages of the book are imaginatively interspersed with a typeface that delineates the patient’s state of mind.

Author : Blair Styra
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Who Catharted by Blair Styra Pdf

Life is speaking to us all the time; it’s full of funny, sad, perplexing and downright astounding stories all day, everyday. We are not only participating in these stories, but creating them every nano second of our Mind, Body, Spirit existence. All to often we let life simply swallow us up and our experiences seem to disappear in a myriad of systems and structures, rules, routines, feelings, actions and thoughts. It’s so important that we all stop and listen to what we are saying to ourselves and through the way we are living our lives and what the world is saying back to us! Over the last 27 years as the channel for Tabaash living my life has sharpened me up enabling me to be a greater observer and participant in my life. I know for sure that I have literally created all my life, all its realities. In my first book “Don’t Change The Channel” I said “Being a spiritual being doesn’t mean you stop being a human being”. I have been on my “soul road” since my mid twenties and now in my late fifties life is still a perplexing expedition offering up more to create, more ways of growing and more ways of growing up! Despite my soul understanding I find that I can still be a complete ass about some things, make mistakes, fall over be afraid and all the other human nature things that we are all involved in. That’s the journey though and its not that those things are good or bad but they are the journey and obviously at some point in the expedition of life we get to the place where we can see how to make better arrangements. And so while we are doing this lets remember that we are all so brilliant and yet we can all still be so silly at times with the way we feel and think and participate in life. Its important that we are serious in our intentions but at times not take ourselves so seriously and to laugh at some of our endeavors and no doubt along the way offering up a good laugh for others.

Author : Vincent Fortanasce
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781440635731

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The Anti-Alzheimer's Prescription by Vincent Fortanasce Pdf

From a world-renowned neurologist, the first book to feature a scientifically substantiated program for the only treatment for Alzheimer's: PREVENTION Alzheimer's is a devastating and frightening disease, and as baby boomers age it's on the brink of becoming the great epidemic of the twenty-first century. Fortunately, by making proper lifestyle choices and avoiding certain risk factors, most people can prevent Alzheimer's, and it can be delayed in those who are genetically predisposed. The Anti- Alzheimer's Prescription presents a unique four-step program that includes menus, recipes, exercises, stress reduction techniques, and neurobics to lower the risk of Alzheimer's by as much as 70 percent. Dr. Fortanasce, who witnessed his own father's painful decline from the disease, is determined to stop Alzheimer's from becoming pandemic.

Author : Eunice L Sykes
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499061697

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Mashed Potatoes in My Salad by Eunice L Sykes Pdf

Mashed Potatoes in My Salad is foremost a love story. It is a poignant tale of a woman, who, after several unsuccessful, toxic and abusive relationships, finally finds the man of her dreams under unlikely, risky and daring circumstances. What she had not anticipated, though, was being a caregiver time and time again as he endures serious illnesses -- including a devastating Alzheimer's diagnosis. This is her complex, multilayered story of ambition, drive, romance, endurance, resilience, loyalty, survival, love, and joy. Her lessons learned will inspire and motivate you to be all that you can be and to live your best life better.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Breast
ISBN : PSU:000013372163

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Cancer Detection in Women and Other Health Care Concerns by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Deborah L. Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1736180002

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Granny Needs My Help by Deborah L. Mills Pdf

Follow the heartwarming tale of emotion and excitement as Zéh discovers what is going on with her granny's brain. This colorful children's picture book gently looks at dementia and Alzheimer's from a child's perspective.Dementia is a growing family issue that affects millions across the world. Granny Needs My Help: A Child's Look at Dementia and Alzheimer's peers into the feelings and confusion little ones can face when a loved one is diagnosed with memory loss like Alzheimer's. This Alzheimer's book for children explains Alzheimer's dementia in kid-friendly terms. The book presents memory loss in an easy-to-understand narrative. Boys and girls alike will benefit from this "must have" children's read. Alzheimer's has an impact on families around the world. This book allows a family to face this challenge together and make the most of every available moment. In Granny Needs My Help: A Child's Look at Dementia and Alzheimer's the main character Zéh is excited, happy, and challenged as she helps and continues to show her granny expressed love. She gains an understanding of dementia, as she has fun with and is challenged by her granny. Granny Needs My Help is a true gem for families and children of all ages.

Author : Kieran Keohane,Anders Petersen,Bert van den Bergh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315447193

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Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents by Kieran Keohane,Anders Petersen,Bert van den Bergh Pdf

This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.

Author : Sally Hepworth
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466852648

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The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth Pdf

With huge heart, humor, and a compassionate understanding of human nature, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the power of love to grow and endure even when faced with the most devastating of obstacles. You won’t forget The Things We Keep. Anna Forster is only thirty-eight years old, but her mind is slowly slipping away from her. Armed only with her keen wit and sharp-eyed determination, she knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. But Anna has a secret: she does not plan on staying. She also knows there's just one another resident who is her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life. As her disease steals more and more of her memory, Anna fights to hold on to what she knows, including her relationship with Luke. Eve Bennett, suddenly thrust into the role of single mother to her bright and vivacious seven-year-old daughter, finds herself putting her culinary training to use at Rosalind house. When she meets Anna and Luke, she is moved by the bond the pair has forged. But when a tragic incident leads Anna's and Luke's families to separate them, Eve finds herself questioning what she is willing to risk to help them. Eve has her own secrets, and her own desperate circumstances that raise the stakes even higher.

Author : Robert Katzman,Katherine Bick
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0080527086

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Alzheimer Disease: The Changing View by Robert Katzman,Katherine Bick Pdf

This book details how "Alzheimer Disease" went from being an obscure neurologic diagnosis to a household word. The words of those responsible for this revolution are the heart of this book. Dr. Robert Katzman and Dr. Katherine Bick, leaders in Alzheimer research and policy making, interview the people responsible for this awakening of public consciousness about Alzheimer Disease from 1960 to 1980. They speak with the scientists, public health officials, government regulators, and concerned relatives and activists responsible for taking this neurodegenerative disease out of the "back wards" through the halls of Congress, and on to the front page. The reader will learn how the explosive increase in research funding and public awareness came about, how physicians and psychiatrists established diagnostic criteria, how drugs were developed that offer hope for sufferers, and how the Alzheimer's Association was born. * Written in the words of those responsible for the widespread recognition of this neurodegenerative disease * The authors are recognised as leaders in Alzheimer research and policy making

Author : Marsha Kibbey
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0876145446

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My Grammy by Marsha Kibbey Pdf

When eight-year old Amy has to share her bedroom with Grammy who has Alzheimer's disease, she learns to give her the patience she needs.

Author : Kay McCabe-Moore
Publisher : Vesuvius Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 1619561999

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My Grandpa Has Alzheimer's by Kay McCabe-Moore Pdf

My Grandpa Has Alzheimers by Kay McCabe-Moore Full color, hard cover first edition, 34 pages.This book was written for adults to share with their elementary school age children, or for the children to read on their own, in order to understand the behaviors of people with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. The author, who is a third grade teacher, has had firsthand experience with Alzheimer's, having volunteered in an Alzheimer's Day Program and having cared for her father who suffered from the disease. Mrs. Moore has taught children for 25 years, and is familiar with the kinds of questions a young child might ask, and how to respond at their level. This book demonstrates how compassion and love, plus a sense of humor, can override the negative effects of this disease, and reinforces the Biblical promise for those who honor their parent, even though their mind may fail.

Author : Jean Lee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 1505327121

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Alzheimer's Daughter by Jean Lee Pdf

What would you do if both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer's?At the time of their diagnosis, Ed Church struggles to his feet, yelling, "How dare you use the A. word with me," while Ibby wags her finger at the doctor scolding, "Shame on you."They protect each other, Ibby by asserting, "We're not leaving our home," and Ed reassuring, "We're just fine."About his driving Ed defends, "I'm an excellent driver, I've never had an accident." When their daughter, Rosie, finds dings in Ed's car, he dismisses, "Someone must have bumped into me."After Rosie moves them to assisted living, convinced they are on a second honeymoon, they break the news, "We've decided not to have more children."In the late stages, they politely shake Rosie's hand, inquiring, "Now, who are you?"In ALZHEIMER'S DAUGHTER readers journey with Rosie Church from her first suspicions that something is awry to nearly a decade later as she is honored to hold Ed and Ibby's hands when they draw their final breaths.