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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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[2013], Princeton University Press Call No: QWF 362.19 L813a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Because of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease through early detection of presymptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a careful study of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive in-depth interviews with clinicians, scientists, epidemiologists, geneticists, and others, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent implicated in this approach. She stresses that one major difficulty is the well-documented absence of behavioral signs of Alzheimer's disease in a significant proportion of elderly individuals, even when Alzheimer neuropathology is present in their brains. This incongruity makes it difficult to distinguish between what counts as normal versus pathological and, further, makes it evident that social and biological processes contribute inseparably to aging. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but it should be complemented by a realistic public health approach available everywhere that will be more effective and more humane than one focused almost exclusively on an increasingly frenzied search for a cure.
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c2007., XYZ éditeur Call No: QWF FR Fic Moo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From a winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize comes a novel about a man, whose memory is unrelentingly exact, and his mother, who is slowly sinking into the quicksand of Alzheimer's and his heartbreaking, often hilarious quest to find a cure for her.
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-- Loin d'elle.2007., Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Away Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's 'forgetfulness' actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since this is the nursing home 'no-vistors,' first 30 days policy of a patient's stay. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only has she seemingly forgotten him, but she has transferred her affections to another man. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.
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By Munro, Jane2014., Brick Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A wise and embodied collection of dreamscapes,sutras and prayer poems from a writer at her peakPoetry. In BLUE SONOMA, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well- honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner's crossing into Alzheimer's is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of insight, Munro's wisdom here is deeply embedded, shot through with moments of wit and candour. In the tradition of Taoist poets like Wang Wei and Po-Chu-i, her sixth and best book opens a wide poetic space, and renders difficult conditions with the lightest of touches.
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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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2015., Biblioasis Call No: Fic Add Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Malcolm is a hairdresser who is dealing with his partner's worsening Alzheimer's and Alison is the salon receptionist, and the story's ingenue. Both are shaken by a brutal event that leaves Alison diving into the history of the Holocaust, and Malcolm even more unable to recover from the loss of his lover. Both are plagued by remembering what others would rather forget: for Malcolm it is personal history, and for Alison, social history, which all of the sudden, has become personal.
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[2002], c2001., Adult, Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Iris Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2004., Viking Call No: QWF Fic Moo c.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From a winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize comes a novel about a man, whose memory is unrelentingly exact, and his mother, who is slowly sinking into the quicksand of Alzheimer's and his heartbreaking, often hilarious quest to find a cure for her.
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c2013., General, Viking Call No: 616.8 C545m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Dr. Tiffany Chow offers knowledge and hope for an illness where there is, as yet, no cure. This book is a summary of what Iœve learned through my research or from my colleagues about prevention and management of dementia,· says the empathetic doctor. Even where there is a family history of Alzheimerœs disease, people at risk can do things to prevent its onset or progression.·Through her grandmother Ah Quan, born in 1906 in Hawaii of Chinese ancestry, Chow has a genetic legacy of Alzheimerœs disease. Comparing her life with her grandmotherœs, she probes what she and other women can do to mitigate the impact of genetics through nutrition, exercise, and through the concepts of cerebral reserve and brain plasticity. But it is in her front-line role managing the suffering caused by dementia and aiding caregivers where Chowœs compassionate voice is most inspiring. The Memory Clinic is instructive and reassuring, and is a fascinating guide through the mysterious twists of the brain.
