Remember Joan An Alzheimer S Story

Author : Candace Minor Comstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-07
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 1463730810

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Remember Joan an Alzheimer's Story by Candace Minor Comstock Pdf

"Throughout the book, Comstock returns to the theme of community, giving credit and gratitude to the friends and family members who helped with her mom's care and supported Comstock through the process, and these are among the memoir's strongest moments... [It is] an affectionate portrait of a damaged but enduring family that has suffered a profound loss but continues to adapt, survive and move forward." --Kirkus Reviews Remember Joan is the account of a daughter beside her mother as they face a life disrupted by Alzheimer's disease. The book opens with a wedding and closes with a funeral. Embedded between these two ceremonial rituals are two tales, a story of the mother's decline and death due to Alzheimer's and a story of the author's relationships and life as the daughter of Joan. Humor is the family's favorite coping strategy when damage control is necessary. In the end, this book is not only a tribute to Joan's life, but a tribute to all who try to create a celebrated life with the people that surround them.

Author : Matthew Rubery
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503633421

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Reader's Block by Matthew Rubery Pdf

What does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This alternative history of reading tells the stories of "atypical" readers and the impact had on their lives by neurological conditions affecting their ability to make sense of the printed word: from dyslexia, hyperlexia, and alexia to synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia. Rubery's focus on neurodiversity aims to transform our understanding of the very concept of reading. Drawing on personal testimonies gathered from literature, film, life writing, social media, medical case studies, and other sources to express how cognitive differences have shaped people's experiences both on and off the page, Rubery contends that there is no single activity known as reading. Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and, for that matter, not reading) despite the ease with which we use the term. Pushing us to rethink what it means to read, Reader's Block moves toward an understanding of reading as a spectrum that is capacious enough to accommodate the full range of activities documented in this fascinating and highly original book. Read it from cover to cover, out of sequence, or piecemeal. Read it upside down, sideways, or in a mirror. For just as there is no right way to read, there is no right way to read this book. What matters is that you are doing something with it—something that Rubery proposes should be called "reading."

Author : Sakkie Filmalter,Joanne Filmalter
Publisher : Nlsa
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0620868171

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Forget Not My Words by Sakkie Filmalter,Joanne Filmalter Pdf

For all her life, Joanne was a language teacher and had always had a deep love for words and expressed them elaborately. After a few months of inexplicable behavior the diagnosis was clear. As Alzheimer's took its toll on her life, the words in her heart slowly deteriorated, and she was eventually admitted to a clinic without a discharge date. Her faithful husband, Sakkie, taught her to declare God's words over her life and mind. Together they discovered how powerful a few words and creativity could be to counter the symptoms of dementia as her memories were restored. Forget not my words captures the true story and journey, recovery, and the road of faith walked by two beautiful hearts, lovinge ach other and trusting God in overcoming the greatest fear any human ever has to face: forgetting. Despite the heaviness of the disease, this story casts hope and joy on the subject and will help families have a different response and perspective to Alzheimer's.

Author : Susan McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0998618705

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Granny Can't Remember Me by Susan McCormick Pdf

A lighthearted picture book about Alzheimer's disease and dementia told from the perspective of a six-year-old boy. Appropriate for children in preschool through early elementary school. Granny can't remember that Joey likes soccer and rockets and dogs, but with Granny's stories of her Three Best Days, Joey knows she loves him just the same.

Author : Joan Sutton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781491731635

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The Alzheimer’S Diary by Joan Sutton Pdf

One who Forgets and One who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease. In her memoir, author Joan Sutton narrates a moving account of her years as caregiver to her husband, noting that Alzheimers is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the currency of the heart. A member of the board of overseers of The Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation, she stresses the need to develop more effective treatment for the five million Americans currently diagnosed with this incurable disease, pointing out that for every patient there is a large circle of others also affected. Sutton offers practical advice for the care of the caregiver and the patient, and shares the pain that came as she watched pieces of her husbands self disappear. Following his death, after what Nancy Reagan described as the long goodbye, she writes candidly about coping with her new status as a widow and the aching loneliness of the heart that is the price paid for having known a great love. 100% of the authors royalties (20 to 40% of the purchase price) will benefit the Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation/Canada. Cover design by John R. Lewis

Author : Isabelle Angelite Ster
Publisher : Reflections Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1616600098

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Remember Me When: Navigating Through Alzheimer's Disease by Isabelle Angelite Ster Pdf

Overview Remember Me When is written and illustrated by kids and part of Reflections Publishing's "Kids Helping Kids Through Books" series. Remember Me When specifically addresses the emotions that children experience when they are navigating through Alzheimer's disease with a loved one. The fiction stories in this series are written and illustrated from the fresh perspective of kids. With the stories written by child authors, child readers who are going through a difficult time can read these stories and have their feelings validated. By connecting with the children through a fiction story, it simply provides a start for the healing process. Because true healing requires a broad focus on emotional, educational, social, and even spiritual needs, this series also provides a non-fiction section for children (and parents) with the tools they need to navigate through these situations. Specifically, at the back of each book in this series, readers will find commentaries for dealing with difficult situations from experts in various fields (e.g., child psychologists, educators, therapists, and religious scholars). We believe this series will provide children with valuable tools to assist them in dealing with many real-life challenges. Description of Remember Me When: The cruel reality of Alzheimer's disease is that it steals from two groups of people. Individuals suffering from this form of dementia are callously robbed of their minds and memories over time. Just as heartbreaking, though, is the theft of the continued comfort and joy the Alzheimer's patients would have brought to their family members and loved ones as the disease progressively grows worse. Remember Me When is a heartfelt story that provides insight into the terrible crime that is Alzheimer's disease, as told from the perspective of an unlikely collateral victim-a child. Combining a touching story written by 8-year-old Isabelle Ster (whose grandfather, Papa Jerry, suffers from the disease), beautiful imagery from artist Emily Morgan, and expert advice on coping skills and interacting with those who suffer from this disease, Remember Me When will be a cherished resource to families and friends as they journey alongside a loved one with Alzheimer's disease.

Author : Jann Arden
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780735273931

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Feeding My Mother by Jann Arden Pdf

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days. When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden's parents built a house just across the way from her, she thought they would be her refuge from the demands of her career. And for a time that was how it worked. But then her dad fell ill and died, and just days after his funeral, her mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. In Feeding My Mother, Jann shares what it is like for a daughter to become her mother's caregiver—in her own frank and funny words, and in recipes she invented to tempt her mom. Full of heartbreak, but also full of love and wonder.

Author : Colette Bachand-Wood
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819232526

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Do This, Remembering Me by Colette Bachand-Wood Pdf

Memory loss should not be spiritual loss. “What do I do to help?” Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, almost everyone knows someone with some form of dementia, yet few know how to answer that question, and very little material exists on providing spiritual care to adults with dementia-related diseases. Even seminaries rarely provide training or clinical pastoral education in this field. This book is an answer. It provides a hands-on manual that will give clergy, spiritual care providers, and family members an understanding of the ongoing spiritual needs of individuals with dementia, as well as practical tools such as how to create a religious service in a memory care unit and how one might plan a nursing home visit. Accessibly written, with real life applications and sample services for a variety of settings. More than just useful, the book inspires with shared stories that are tender, sad, funny—and sometimes all three at once, encouraging readers to develop spiritual care ministries for people with memory loss in congregations, homes, nursing facilities, or other communities—a ministry that will only gain in importance in the coming decade, as Baby Boomers age and the number of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia skyrockets.

Author : Halina Ogonowska-Coates,Alzheimers New Zealand Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 0473088029

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Remember Me by Halina Ogonowska-Coates,Alzheimers New Zealand Incorporated Pdf

Author : Lisa Genova
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849833714

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Still Alice by Lisa Genova Pdf

A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. 'Remarkable … illuminating … highly relevant today' Daily Mail 'The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating' Rosie Boycot 'Utterly brilliant' Chrissy Iley

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501324710

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Forgetfulness by Francis O'Gorman Pdf

Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O'Gorman shows how forgetting has been embraced as a requirement for modern existence and how our education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnects us from our pasts. But he also examines the cultural narratives that urge us to resist our collective amnesia. O'Gorman argues that such narratives, in rich but oblique ways, indicate our guilt about modernity's great unmooring from history. Forgetfulness asks what the absence of history does to our sense of purpose, as well as what belonging both to time and place might mean in cultures without a memory. It is written in praise of the best achievement and deeds of the past, but is also an expression of profound anxiety about what forgetting them is doing to us.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN : UOM:39015014258290

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Working Woman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000536522

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Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care by Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus Pdf

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre performance, photography and music. The collection has a broad geographical scope, with case studies and primary texts from Europe and North America but also from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. The volume asks what care, autonomy and dependence may mean and how these may be inflected by social and cultural specificities. Ultimately, it invites us to reflect on our relations to others as we face the global and local challenges of care in ageing societies.

Author : Barry Petersen
Publisher : Behler Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781933016979

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Jan's Story by Barry Petersen Pdf

When CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen married the love of his life twenty-five years ago, he never thought his vow, “until death do us part,” would have an expiration date. But Early Onset Alzheimer's claimed Jan Petersen, Barry’s beautiful wife, at 55, leaving her unable to remember Barry or their life together.

Author : Fred Walker,Dr. Chris Pomfrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 0956508960

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Alzheimer's: An Engineer's View by Fred Walker,Dr. Chris Pomfrett Pdf