When people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, their family and friends usually must care for them and make decisions on their behalf. The caregivers’ job can be emotionally and physically draining. Alzheimer’s Disease: A Guide for Families helps you to overcome the challenges of looking after a loved one with Alzheimer’s: communicating, staying healthy, making your home safe, avoiding depression, finding long-term health care, and more.More than any other book, Alzheimer’s Disease: A Guide for Families focuses on the emotional side of the illness. For example, talking with someone who has Alzheimer’s disease is frustrating and frightening for both of you. This book not only explains how to make communication easier, it tells how to cope with your feelings. The authors even address the anxiety ignited by the discovery that Alzheimer’s has a genetic component: the fear that relatives may also get the disease.Alzheimer’s Disease: A Guide for Families is full of practical advice on such questions as ensuring patients’ rights, finding time for healthy meals and exercise, maintaining family finances, and choosing the right nursing care. It explains Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia in understandable language, summarizing recent research findings and possible treatments. Based on many years of work with families of the memory-impaired, this book will be a real help to all relatives and friends of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Well balanced consideration of effects of AD on the family.,
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This review is from: Alzheimer's Disease: A Guide For Families (Paperback)
I liked this book because it addresses the emotional devastation of Alzheimers as well as the physical, legal, and domestic arrangements. There is an entire chapter devoted to anger, another to depression, and another to fear. I found this to be right on target.
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What you Need to Know and Did Not Know Before,
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This review is from: Alzheimer's Disease: A Guide for Families (Hardcover)
This book is a classic in its field. If you have ever known anyone with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) or have worried if you will , at some future or near date, get it yourself or are mildly interested in what it is all about - this is a must book. Geared to the lay population (and professionals can learn a lot from it too) it is a fast, easy read chock full of information offered up on an appetizing way for a subject that we all want to distance ourselves from - but cannot and should not. Offering direct, hands-on hints to family members, it is a concrete guide that no other book I know of has provided. As two professionals who have specialized in the field of aging, few in psychology do, teach it and write about it, we suggest it to all our students and family members who come to us in despair and leave with hope. Dr. Lenore Powell has given us all a gift. We owe her much thanks. Marcella Bakur Weiner, Ph.D. and William Weiner, Ph.D.
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What you Need to Know and Did Not Know Before,
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This review is from: Alzheimer's Disease: A Guide for Families (Hardcover)
This book is a classic in its field. If you have ever known anyone with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) or have worried if you will , at some future or near date, get it yourself or are mildly interested in what it is all about - this is a must book. Geared to the lay population (and professionals can learn a lot from it too) it is a fast, easy read chock full of information offered up on an appetizing way for a subject that we all want to distance ourselves from - but cannot and should not. Offering direct, hands-on hints to family members, it is a concrete guide that no other book I know of has provided. As two professionals who have specialized in the field of aging, few in psychology do, teach it and write about it, we suggest it to all our students and family members who come to us in despair and leave with hope. Dr. Lenore Powell has given us all a gift. We owe her much thanks. Marcella Bakur Weiner, Ph.D. and William Weiner, Ph.D.
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