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When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99Provides caregivers with compassionate strategies for dealing with the challenges related to Alzheimer's, from memory loss and behavior problems to maintaining quality of life and taking important legal steps. more...
Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 20.99One in ten adults over 65 has some form of mild cognitive impairment or MCI--thinking problems that go beyond those associated with normal aging, but that fall short of the serious impairments experienced by people with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. This is the first book written specifically for individuals with MCI, for their loved... more...
Since You Went Away
Diane Banks Associates 2012; US$ 7.28Maisie Wilton, a middle aged foster mother whose family means everything to her, writes to her estranged sister Ruth to let her know that their mother has died. Impulsive Ruth, who has never quite seen eye to eye with Maisie, left her husband and two children for her Argentinian lover ten years ago and has not been in touch since. Maisie's... more...
The Alzheimer's Prevention Program
Workman Publishing Company 2012; US$ 13.95Want to keep Alzheimer?s at bay for years?ideally, forever? Prevention is the way, and this is the guide. Now in paperback and updated throughout, The Alzheimer?s Prevention Program is essential for everyone with a family history of Alzheimer?s, and for the 80 million baby boomers who worry whenever they forget someone?s name. It?s the book that... more...
An Unintended Journey
Prometheus Books 2013; US$ 11.99According to the 2009 census, more than five million people living in the United States have Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia. Not reported in these statistics are the fifteen million family caregivers who, in total, contribute seventeen billion hours of unpaid care each year. This book addresses the needs and challenges faced by... more...
Remember When?
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99We don?t often marvel at the process of remembering?that is, until we forget. What allows us to remember, and how do we forget? Most importantly, why do we remember certain things and not others? In this e-book, Remember When? The Science of Memory, we explore what science can tell us about memory, starting with an introductory section defining what... more...
Dementia Essentials
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.67When a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia, many family members assume new roles as carers, helping their relative to remain safe, happy and as independent as possible. Dementia Essentials is a practical, realistic and reassuring guide to help you and the person with dementia on the journey ahead. Written by a real carer with... more...
Designing and Delivering Dementia Services
Wiley 2013; US$ 98.95Dementia is increasingly and widely recognised as a serious health and social challenge, in the developed world as well as in the developing world. The need therefore to design and implement dementia care services of high quality is becoming more and more vital, particularly given the likelihood of ever increasing demand in a world, which likely sees... more...
Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 24.95Previously published in HC as Dancing With Rose One journalist?s riveting?and surprisingly hopeful? in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer?s Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer?s. Like many children of Alzheimer?s sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed... more...
Measure of the Heart
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. The New York Times wrote a front page... more...









