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Life With Big Al (Early Alzheimer's) a Caregivers Diary

Author : Judy Seegmiller
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359287913
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Life With Big Al (Early Alzheimer's) a Caregivers Diary written by Judy Seegmiller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life With BIG AL is a story about how one family copes having their husband, father, and grandfather diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 52. It is a story of struggle, faith, laughter, sadness, joy, and above all, much love. Craig was a bright, energetic, very athletic individual who had always taken perfect care of his body. He ran 10-15 miles per day, ran a small retail specialty store by himself, and took care of his wife recovering from cancer and kidney failure. It was because of all the things he did that no one paid too much attention when he did something out of the ordinary; he had so much stress in his life. It wasn't until his wife, Judy, got well and studied that she knew. And, life With BIG AL began...

Life with Big Al

Author : Judy Seegmiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781576361085
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Life with Big Al written by Judy Seegmiller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life with Big Al (Early Alzheimer's)

Author : Judy Seegmiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780759679979
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Life with Big Al (Early Alzheimer's) written by Judy Seegmiller and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why settle for plain floors when you can turn them into decorative accents that add as much to the beauty of your home as the furniture or window treatments? Products such as acrylic varnishes that resist yellowing make it easier than ever to achieve great results using a variety of time-honoured techniques.

The Alzheimer's Diary

Author : Joan Sutton
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491731613
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Alzheimer's Diary written by Joan Sutton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One who Forgets and One who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. In her memoir, author Joan Sutton narrates a moving account of her years as caregiver to her husband, noting that "Alzheimer's is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the currency of the heart." A member of the board of overseers of The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, she stresses the need to develop more effective treatment for the eight million Americans currently diagnosed with this incurable disease, pointing out that for every patient there is a large circle of others also affected. Sutton offers practical advice for the care of the caregiver and the patient, and shares the pain that came as she watched pieces of her husband's self disappear. Following his death, after what Nancy Reagan described as "the long goodbye", she writes candidly about coping with her new status as a widow and the aching loneliness of the heart that is the price paid for having known a great love. All profits from the sale of this book will benefit The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation/Canada. Cover design by John R. Lewis

Journal of an Alzheimer's Caregiver

Author : Winifred E. Johnson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468576399
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Journal of an Alzheimer's Caregiver written by Winifred E. Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first hand account of what it is like to have a loved on develop Alzheimer's. With the help from my journal I will roll back the years to when I first observed some subtle changes that would eventually change my life and my husband's. Where do you turn when youfeel your life is suddenly shut half down? Who do you turn to hen you have decisions to be made? What happens to your life as you become a caregiver. These symptoms of Alzheimer's range over six years and I believe that other spouses who are in the same position will want to know that they are not alone. Also some people may be wondering iftheir loved one is a candidate for Alzheimer's. Hopefully this will help them.

DEMENTIA DIARY: A Care Giver's Journal

Author : Robert Tell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411665805
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book DEMENTIA DIARY: A Care Giver's Journal written by Robert Tell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HARD COVER EDITION------WHAT'S IT LIKE to be the only son of a widowed mother who is rapidly sinking into the opaque fog of dementia, and who lives alone half a continent away? ROBERT TELL tells this tale with compassion and humor. DEMENTIA DIARY reads like fiction and covers the fifteen year period from his father's shocking death in a department store to his mother's 92nd birthday. It is meant to be a portable support group. If you have watched helplessly as your parent, spouse or friend's identity disappeared into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), this heart-wrenching memoir will touch you deeply

Diary of a Caregiver

Author : Rex T. Young
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984511424
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Caregiver written by Rex T. Young and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, my wife of over fifty-eight years was diagnosed with dementia with Alzheimers symptoms. My caregiving responsibilities began before that time and continued until her death in January 2018. She was provided care in her own home. As time went by, the caregiver duties became more and more demanding. It was truly twenty-four hours each day and seven days each week. My sweetheart was referred to the hospice program as a patient beginning in 2013 with a life expectancy of six months or less. At the time of her passing, she had been a hospice patient for four years, eleven months, and five days. The Diary of a Caregiver begins with her entry into the hospice program and continues until her death. Caregiving can be very frustrating at times as one never knows what to expect or when to expect it. The Diary of a Caregiver identifies many of the problems and frustrations associated with care of a dementia patient. It also identifies different techniques and solutions to some of those problems. It should be of interest to anyone who is involved in caregiving, especially those who are just beginning.

A Dignified Life

Author : Virginia Bell
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 075730060X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book A Dignified Life written by Virginia Bell and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines a practical approach to Alzheimer's that urges caregivers to improve the lives of both patient and care provider, offering advice on how to regard an Alzheimer's sufferer as a best friend while working from their strengths. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver

Author : Robert Hershberger
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612497357
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver written by Robert Hershberger and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year shy of her fiftieth wedding anniversary, Dee Hershberger was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Her husband, Bob, serving as her primary caregiver, kept a journal the following four and a half years. Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver provides an unflinchingly honest and heartbreaking account of what the couple went through. During the first two and a half years, Dee gradually lost short-term memory but maintained most physical and social abilities. Over the last two years she lost these abilities, most words, and long-term memory. She also became incontinent, suffered from undetected illnesses, and experienced psychotic episodes and uncontrollable, violent behavior. This is a brutally raw look at what it is like to lose a loved one to Alzheimer’s, including what the disease does to the patient and the effects it has on loved ones and caregivers. This personal view into caring for a spouse with Alzheimer’s will help readers understand the physical, emotional, and financial consequences of the disease, as well as provide support, advice, and hope to anyone in the same situation.

Alzheimer’S Through Tears and Laughter

Author : Edwina Marino
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481778552
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Alzheimer’S Through Tears and Laughter written by Edwina Marino and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there is a disease afflicting many people and arousing fear in those whose ages can start as young as forty years, and moving on through the sixties, seventy and eighty year old groups. It is known as Alzheimers Disease. This book is about sharing this experience with my sister-in-law who came down with this disease in her later years. She was eighty-four at the time and lived to be ninety four years old. I was encouraged to take notes and write about this by a doctor who told me I would be in a position to see its development every day for as long as she remained with me. He said, Take lots of notes. You will be able to observe so much more than I, because I dont spend that much time with a patient, and you will be with her day and night and observe the changes as they happen and what triggers her behavior. Good Luck! With that I started out on my ten year trip through the ups and downs, the good days and bad days of Alzheimers disease. Our days were laced with pain and humor, but I was determined to see it through, laughing a little and crying a lot, hoping the scenery would change, but finally surrendering to this fate that had come upon us. Our mantra became Lets laugh because if we dont we shall most certainly cry! I chose to care for her because I wanted her to be surrounded by love, music and laughter, in a place where we could laugh with her and cry with her and never be alone. Im glad I did.

The Caregiver

Author : Aaron Alterra
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720589
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Caregiver written by Aaron Alterra and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron and Stella Alterra had been married for more than sixty years when Aaron began to notice puzzling lapses in his wife's memory. Innocuous at first, they became more severe and more alarming. After a series of appointments and tests, the Alterras were informed that Stella was one of the more than 4.5 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. Combining medical research on the disease and often-painful anecdotes of memory loss, deteriorating motor functions, personality shifts, support-group and daycare experiences, and drug trials, Alterra chronicles his transformation from husband to caregiver after his wife's diagnosis. More than a chronology of one family's experience of Alzheimer's disease, The Caregiver is an intelligent, beautifully reflective testimony to how family members turned caregivers become the ultimate advocates for their loved ones in the face of a disease with no cure.

My Life Rearranged

Author : Susan G. Miller
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0967958415
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book My Life Rearranged written by Susan G. Miller and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pssst ...is your life being rearranged? You are not alone. Alzheimer’s and dementia will turn your life inside out and upside down. In fact, there are many days you won’t know if you are coming or going. Susan Miller knows those days. Her husband was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer’s. She became the long distance caregiver for her father’s medical issues, followed by her mother’s diagnosis of dementia and then a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s for her mother-in-law. After decades of caregiving and years of widowhood, Susan met a wonderful widower, only to discover signs of dementia. My Life Rearranged gives voice to what many caregivers think, but are reluctant to admit.You will discover: •The issues of love, loss, responsibility, duty, and self-preservation while navigating the stages of the disease. •What it’s like to struggle with a disease that strikes terror in people’s hearts and offers ways to come through intact. •How to lessen the isolation and loneliness of caregiving, and bring honest insight into the life of a caregiver. Imagine coming home from the store and layingyour package down, only to find it gone thirty minutes later, nowhere to be found. Imagine looking for your favorite cereal in the morning, not finding it anywhere, and only later when you go to do a load of wash, do you find it. Imagine living with your spouse of many years, only to awaken one day and find he has turned into a child. Imagine thinking you are living in a house of cards, or that you are imagining it all, or perhaps it’s just a dream and you’ll soon awaken, but it’s not and you don’t. Imagine repeating this scenario over and overagain. My Life Rearranged will tug at your heart, touch your soul, inspire you, and help you believe in your capabilities.

Caregiver’s Diary

Author : Robert Patrick
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1638298882
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Caregiver’s Diary written by Robert Patrick and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After COVID-19, the next medical crisis will be Alzheimer’s Disease. It is estimated to impact 5.5 million in the US alone. This little booklet chronicles one woman’s slide into eternity. The disease is hard to diagnose, and both difficult and expensive to treat. The disease sometimes starts in middle age, but mostly affects the elderly. Once it affects a family, it tends to dominate all other activities. It affects all races and appears worldwide. This booklet tells of ten years care for one man’s wife. Compare your situation to his.

Life with Alz

Author : Mildred Key Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970521484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Life with Alz written by Mildred Key Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alzheimer's Disease

Author : Patricia R. Callone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458765687
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Alzheimer's Disease written by Patricia R. Callone and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dignity Within A Handbook for Caregivers, Family, and Friends Of the estimated 5 million Americans who have Alzheimer's disease, more than 70% live at home, with family and friends. Alzheimer's Disease: A Handbook for Caregivers, Family, and Friends is a unique resource for those caregivers so that they can be better equipped to nurture people living with Alzheimer's disease. This expert guide educates the reader on the physical changes in the brain as the disease progresses and outlines what can be done from a caregiver's standpoint at each stage. It stresses the importance of self-care in ensuring that you are prepared to support the person with Alzheimer's disease. Packed with tips and techniques from five authorities in the field, this book answers critical questions such as: What caregiving style will suit me best? What skills are likely to remain as Alzheimer's disease progresses? How do I balance my needs with the needs of the person I'm caring for? How do I find the time to rest and relax? When is it time to consider an assisted living community or a nursing home? And much more! The most important tenet of this book is that we can better care for people with Alzheimer's disease by recognizing the ''essence within'' a person living through the different stages of the disease. This positive approach will help both caregivers and people affected by Alzheimer's disease live with a sense of dignity, importance, and self-esteem.

Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Author : Just Joyce
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645307948
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Caregiver's Hell written by Just Joyce and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Caregiver's Hell By: Just Joyce At the age of 3-1/2, Joyce became a foster child to Ethel and Blair Breitigam. They raised her on their Pennsylvania farm to adulthood. Little did Ethel and Blair know how their decision would not only change the rest of Joyce’s life, but have an impact on who would be there for them at the closing time of their lives. Ethel and Blair experienced 17+ years of progression through debilitating illnesses, frailty of body, becoming invalids, along with both of them having Alzheimer’s. Although these years seem to have been taken from Joyce, it has also been a selfless giving by Joyce to this man and woman she came to call Mom and Dad. With her real-world, down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is attitude, just maybe Joyce can help one or two caregivers out there who are finding their situation hard to deal with.

A Little Book for Alzheimer's Caregivers

Author : Celia Koudele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781457529122
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book A Little Book for Alzheimer's Caregivers written by Celia Koudele and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know what it feels like to be exhausted, afraid and sad because the Mother I knew was slipping away, and I didn't have the energy or knowledge to make it better. This Alzheimer's Caregivers book is short and simple. It covers the emotions, daily living problems and the big decisions about placing them in a facility. It is for all of you pretending they "aren't that bad" while quality time slips away. Denial hurts everyone. There are ideas to cope with anger, bathing and wandering. But always remember no one is promised forever, we all get one day at a time. Celia Koudele is passionate about this disease. She wants to help others learn about it, recognize it, and deal with it. Her mother, grandmother, and an aunt all died from Alzheimer's. It is in her past, present, and probably her future. She shares your journey in many ways. "Celia, in her book, "The Little Book for Alzheimer's Caregivers," provides hands on, first person knowledge for anyone dealing with a person with Alzheimer's disease. Personally the skills she possesses as a caregiver herself, as well as her many years as Family Care Coordinator for the Alzheimer's Association Central and Western Kansas, assisting families, friends, and caregivers provides great knowledge to make things better. The information she provides is down to earth, common sense tactics. This is an easy to read, easy to understand approach for anyone dealing with Alzheimer's disease caregiving." Marsha Hills Executive Director Alzheimer's Association Central and Western Kansas Chapter.