At The End Of The Day Early Onset Alzheimers Essays
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| Author | : L. S. Fisher |
| Publisher | : Mozark Press |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2016-08-01 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780990327028 |
Taking care of another human being is hard. In my opinion, the physical part of care giving is not as difficult as the emotional grief. Perhaps the hardest of all for me was to stay positive and maintain my own physical and mental health. We all get discouraged, but by digging deep into our indomitable spirits, we can conquer the difficulties that life throws our way. At the end of the day, all we can do is take excellent care of our loved ones with dementia and put an end to this awful disease. In the meantime, my wish is that each of us lives life to the fullest!
| Author | : Richard Taylor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : |
Receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease profoundly alters lives and creates endless uncertainty about the future. How does a person cope with such a life-changing discovery? What are the hopes and fears of someone living with this disease? How does he want to be treated? How does he feel as the disease alters his brain, his relationships, and ultimately himself? Richard Taylor provides illuminating responses to these and many other questions in this collection of provocative essays. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at age 61, the former psychologist courageously shares an account of his slow transformation and deterioration and the growing division between his world and the world of others. With poignant clarity, candor, and even occasional humor, more than 80 brief essays address difficult issues faced by those with Alzheimer's disease, including the loss of independence and personhood unwanted personality shifts communication difficulties changes in relationships with loved ones and friends the declining ability to perform familiar tasks This rare, insightful exploration into the world of individuals with Alzheimer's disease is a captivating read for anyone affected personally or professionally by the devastating disease. Individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's disease will take comfort in the voice of a fellow traveler experiencing similar challenges, frustrations, and triumphs. Family and professional caregivers will be enlightened by Taylor's revealing words, gaining a better understanding of an unfathomable world and how best to care for someone living in it.
| Author | : Jonathan Franzen |
| Publisher | : PONS |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783125615472 |
2-sprachiger Lektüreband mit einer Erzählung von Jonathan Frantzen und einer Audio-CD mit dem englischen Text; für Lernende mit guten Vorkenntnissen.
| Author | : Barry Rex Petersen |
| Publisher | : Behler Publications |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1933016442 |
CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen tells the tender story of his wife's battle with Early Onset Alzheimer's.
| Author | : Annette Leibing |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0813538033 |
Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society's attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related diagnoses and the nature of treatment. Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this unique volume approaches the subject from a variety of angles, exploring the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on solid ethnographic fieldwork, the essays employ a cross-cultural perspective and focus on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show the extent to which the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also very much culturally constructed. Second, detailed ethnographic reports raise questions about the behavioral criteria used by health care professionals and laymen for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings.; Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals.
| Author | : Walter George Bradley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1672 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780750674690 |
New edition, completely rewritten, with new chapters on endovascular surgery and mitochrondrial and ion channel disorders.
| Author | : Gerda Saunders |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2017-06-13 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0316502634 |
A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" (Shelf Awareness). Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders, a former university professor, nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. "For anyone facing dementia, [Saunders'] words are truly enlightening . . . Inspiring lessons about living and thriving with dementia." -- Maria Shriver, NBC's Today Show
| Author | : Martina Zimmermann |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2017-06-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3319443887 |
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer’s narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first, patients’ articulations must be made central to dementia discourse; and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s patients.
| Author | : Jason Karlawish |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2021-02-23 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1250218748 |
A definitive and compelling book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2050. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis. While it is an unambiguous account of decades of missed opportunities and our health care systems’ failures to take action, it tells the story of the biomedical breakthroughs that may allow Alzheimer’s to finally be prevented and treated by medicine and also presents an argument for how we can live with dementia: the ways patients can reclaim their autonomy and redefine their sense of self, how families can support their loved ones, and the innovative reforms we can make as a society that would give caregivers and patients better quality of life. Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center.
| Author | : Daniel Gibbs |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2023-03-16 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1009333585 |
Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer's, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he had Alzheimer's several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer's. Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man's journey with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Soon to be a documentary film on MTV/Paramount +.
