The Everything Health Guide to Alzheimer's Disease: A reassuring, informative guide for families and caregivers [Paperback]

Maureen Dezell (Author), Carrie Hill (Author)

Book Description

Series: Everything (Health) | Publication Date: October 18, 2009

With more than 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer?s disease, families and caregivers of Alzheimer?s patients need guidance and support more than ever before. This guide offers an overview of the medical, legal, and practical questions and decisions caregivers and families of Alzheimer?s patients face. With this book, you will learn how to:

• Find the right doctor for your loved ones
• Choose treatments and medications
• Build and maintain brain health
• Handle living, medical, financial, and legal issues
• Set up care and support systems for your loved ones
• Understand the latest research in Alzheimer?s treatment, including genetic testing and diagnostic imaging

This handbook explains the disease, its warning signs, and its diagnosis, while providing complete information on care and treatment. Whether it?s early-onset or late-onset Alzheimer?s, you will be well informed and prepared to take the right steps toward a better life for your loved ones.

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About the Author

Maureen Dezell (Brookline, MA) is a veteran journalist and author. A former Boston Globe living/arts reporter, she covered health care issues and ethics for the Boston Phoenix and reported on the business and politics of health care for Boston Business Journal. Author of the critically acclaimed Irish America: Coming into Clover, Dezell is now a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in The New Republic, American Health, Child, ARTNews, and The New York Times. She teaches journalism at Emerson College in Boston.

Carrie Hill (Paragonah, UT) has a PhD in counseling psychology with a minor in gerontology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her professional experiences include geropsychology and neuropsychology rotations at the Buffalo VA Medical Center, two years as a nursing home clinician for the Jefferson Center for Mental Health in Colorado, and five years as the Southern Utah Regional Director of the Alzheimer?s Association. She has published more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters and has conducted presentations at local, state, and national events in the areas of Alzheimer?s, caregiving, and cross-cultural psychology. Hill is the About.com Guide to Alzheimer?s Disease.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media; 1 edition (October 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605501247
• ISBN-13: 978-1605501246
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Handy information for family, February 2, 2010

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Walter W. Ko "Walter Ko" (St Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Everything Health Guide to Alzheimer's Disease: A reassuring, informative guide for families and caregivers (Paperback)

It is a well organized book with good information for family taking care their love one with Alzheimer's disease. It gives a comprehensive, holistic overview of medical, legal and practical questions and decision especially in handing the bathing and other daily activities. It guides you to the support group for sharing and avoiding burn-out and fatigue. Of value are the information at the back of the book from Medicare and Medicaid to the different websites for good information (not informercials, lies or deceptions).

This book will help in understanding the disease, taking care the patient and caregivers with a wealth unbiased practical and dependable information.