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2013., CreateSpace Call No: 616.831 L668a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "...A selection of user-friendly activities that will help maintain your parent's self-care skills, mobility, and socialization. These tasks encourage success and feelings of self-worth, and offer imaginative ways to interact with your parent.".
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2009., General, Key Porter Books Call No: Bio M551m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This book chronicles Menziesœs transformative journey with her mother as words fail and the very nature of communication is redefined. Family dynamics among sisters and brothers come to the fore as the roles and responsibilities of the parent shift to the children: from moving their mother to a seniors' residence to signing a medical power of attorney to the matriarch's physical decline, to her safe passage into death. Menzies and her siblings experience growing old--and growing up--in touching and heart-wrenching ways.
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2023., 07:46:03, Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: "These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer's. Sandeep Jauhar's prose is insightful, honest, and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes." —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it. Almost six million Americans—about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five—have Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition—an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father's Brain , the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father's descent into Alzheimer's alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured. In an intimate memoir rich with humor and heartbreak, Jauhar relates how his immigrant father and extended family felt, quarreled, and found their way through the dissolution of a cherished life. Along the way, he lucidly exposes what happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters, and explores everything from the history of ancient Greece to the most cutting-edge neurological—and bioethical—research. Throughout, My Father's Brain confronts the moral and psychological concerns that arise when family members must become caregivers, when children's and parents' roles reverse, and when we must accept unforeseen turns in our closest relationships—and in our understanding of what it is to have a self. The result is a work of essential insight into dementia, and into how scientists, caregivers, and all of us in an aging society are reckoning with the fallout.
![My father's brain [eAudiobook] : Life in the shadow of alzheimer's](/Library/images/~imageCT103766.JPG "My father's brain [eAudiobook] : Life in the shadow of alzheimer's")
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c2012., Steerforth Press Summary Note: "James Ryan was there whenever and wherever the world changed: in the Middle East, in the Balkans, in the former Soviet bloc. But now he can't remember these events; his past is vanishing, except the summer of his fifteenth year following his mother's death. It was the summer his father told him to call him Kurt. The summer the mysterious and enchanting Vera burst into their lonely, silent lives. The summer his own world opened, then irrevocably changed. James, at fifty-two, suffers from early onset Alzheimer's. His story unravels through the clear glimpses he retains of that long ago time in Philadelphia and along the Atlantic shore, and through the desperate attempts of his wife and his nurse to bring him back to the present, if only for stolen momements."--P. [2] of cover.
![Shadow man [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74728.JPG "Shadow man [eBook]")
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2015., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Still Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
![Still Alice [DVD] (2014) Directed by Richard Glatzer](/Library/images/~imageCT81310.JPG "Still Alice [DVD] (2014) Directed by Richard Glatzer")
