A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
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Written for patients, their families, and caregivers, the practical information here will help readers understand what is physically happening to the brain so they can empower their own special skills and talents throughout the disease process. The book is divided into three sections that correspond to the progression of Alzheimer’s, and the unique challenges encountered at each stage. *Section A: The four stages of Alzheimer’s with hundreds of practical tips for coping at each level
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Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
Receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease profoundly alters lives and creates endless uncertainty about the future. How does a person cope with such a life-changing discovery? What are the hopes and fears of someone living with this disease? How does he want to be treated? How does he feel as the disease alters his brain, his relationships, and ultimately himself? Richard Taylor provides illuminating responses to these and many other questions in this collection of provocative essays. D
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August 17th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Review by Angela Thomas for A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
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I am a geriatric care manager and was the primary caregiver for my aunt for 7 years before she died from AD. The experience of caring for her was challenging but also very positive and life transforming for me. This book captures the heart of my experience and presents Alzheimer’s Disease and caring for a loved one with it in a very life affirming way. It gives hope and meaning to a difficult but not hopeless situation. The many practical ideas presented in the book are invaluable and come straight from the real lives of experienced caregivers. I can highly recommend it.
The companion volume, “Alzheimer’s Disease: The Dignity Within: A Handbook for Caregivers, Family and Friends” is also excellent.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Review by Susan Berg for A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
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This book is a must have for any person dealing with a loved one, friend or client with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. The tips are practical and readable. It is important for those caring for someone with dementia to have the proper tools. Also you want to focus on skills an afflicted person still has. Important also is keeping the mind of an Alzheimer’s person active because this will help slow the decline. This book gives you practical tips on how to do that
by Susan Berg, author of Adorable Photographs of Our Baby: Meaningful, Mind Stimulating Activities and More for the Memory Challenged, Their Loved Ones, and Involved Professionals
August 17th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Review by Gina Lypaczewski for A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
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This book gives a clear and concise summary of changes which occur in the brain and in the behavior of the patient with Alzheimer’s Disease. Dividing the book into three sections based on the stages of the disease is very useful. The tips for making life easier can easily be implemented.
August 18th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Review by Debra A. Henderson for A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
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If you plan to care for your loved one at home for as long as possible, this book is very helpful. It helped me understand the abilities that are present throughout the disease process (much like other books on the subject) but had a lot of very practical suggestions on how to compensate as the different abilities are lost. I never would have thought of painting the wall behind the toilet, reflector tape on the floor, etc.
August 18th, 2010 at 12:51 am
Review by Christie for A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
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Has excellent information and guides you with suggestions as the disease progresses. Gives you some choices along the way to caring for your loved one.
August 18th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Review by Susan L. Mccandless for Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
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Very few books can be all things to all people. This comes very close. I have read most of the others, including the very few written by the people affected by some kind of brain condition that changes them, their behavior, their perceptions of themselves, and people’s and society’s perceptions of them as individuals. This book, written by a highly intelligent and verbal retired psychologist, a professional, about his own progression through the early stages of dementia, probably of the Alzheimer’s type (medical people have to use that phrase as only a biopsy of the brain is definitive right now), is for everyone. Those affected, their loved ones, professionals working with those affected, academicians/researchers looking for insights, psychologists, sociologists, psychoneurologists, etc. etc. It is not just about dementia. Any brain problem that changes the person is equally relevant. I know what I speak about. I am also a retired psychologist, diagnosed with Pick’s Disease, a dementia of the frontotemporal form. The causes may be irrelevant to most readers (build-up of certain proteins in the brain, vascular misfunctioning, whatever). It is the existential reality that is explored here, with exquisite insight, and humor as well. I have never met this man, but I certainly know him well now. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.
August 18th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Review by Mona Johnson for Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
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Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out is a stunning achievement. In this collection of essays, Richard Taylor gets at the essence of dementia, and how it has redefined his relationships with family, friends and even with himself.
There are no answers when it comes to Alzheimer’s, but Richard asks all the right questions. Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out is much more than a resource for anyone dealing with the disease. Although the book includes plenty of practical information, Richard goes beyond test scores, standard medications and neuroimaging to the more important philosophical and psychological aspects of life after diagnosis. He takes the focus off the disease, and puts it back on the person.
I wish I’d read this book when my father were alive. I would have worried less about what was wrong with him and worried more about just being with him.
August 18th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Review by L. Elderly Health for Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
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This book gives a unique perspective on the feelings of the person with Alzheimer’s disease. Examining how it feels to be ignored by family and doctor’s as if they are not in the room as they are discussed. It is a good book for families and other caregivers to read as it can help them understand some of the behaviors that the person with Alzheimer’s disease exhibit, especially fear, anger, outrage, embarrassment, etc., often they cannot explain these reactions in words and thus act out their feelings. This book helps the caregiver understand this better and helps them to see that a change in their behavior might improve their loved one’s behavior.
August 18th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Review by Alan Hall for Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
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I have early dementia, fitting the criteria for Alzheimer’s. Like the author, I was a psychotherapist in my 50s when my difficulties became such that I couldn’t work. It’s incredibly powerful to read his words, and see what I would have said if I were only so gifted. Most importantly, I want doctors to read this book, as most of them relate only to dementia as it looks in the end stage, and aren’t familiar with what the early disease process looks like.
August 18th, 2010 at 3:23 am
Review by Deborah Uetz for Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
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Whether you are a care giver or have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s this book will enrich your knowledge. Richard Taylor has the insight of personal experienc. He also has the gift of being able to convey that experience with passion, honesty and grit.