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Caring for a loved one with dementia can be overwhelming and emotionally challenging, but it can also be one of the most rewarding roles you’ll ever take on. "Caring for Dementia Patients" is a comprehensive guide designed to empower caregivers with practical tools and compassionate insights to provide high-quality care throughout every stage of dementia.

What happened to the kind, lighthearted gentleman whose strong faith had grounded him for eighty years? When I was growing up, Dad was a playful, happy man who enjoyed bringing pleasure to his loved ones. Constructing a skating rink in the barnyard, planning trailer trips to Disneyland or Montana, building a wakeboard to tow us behind his boat were gifts. Hard-working and ingenious, his whimsy disguised the changes taking place. Dads mission to protect and care for others, while seeking his childhood dream of owning a farm, triggered a slow slide into the current of dementia.

Dementia affects millions of lives around the world, and its impact is only growing as populations age. Unraveling Dementia is a comprehensive guide that dives deep into the science behind dementia, offering clarity and hopes to patients, caregivers, and anyone seeking to understand this complex condition. From the causes and types of dementia to the latest treatments and cutting-edge research, this book sheds light on every aspect of the disease.

Caregiving is challenging, but understanding your loved one's behavior and using effective strategies can ease the burden.

In Valley of Forgetting, Jennie Erin Smith brings listeners into the clinic, the laboratories, and the Medellín trial center where Lopera’s patients receive an experimental drug to see if Alzheimer’s can be averted. She chronicles the lives of people who care for sick parents, spouses, and siblings, all while struggling to keep their own dreams afloat.

Truth, Lies & Alzheimer's: Its Secret Faces is a concise guide to navigating the heartbreaking challenges of having a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias.

Alzheimer's caregiving challenges and how to deal with specific events. Care required for anyone is unique to that person's specific needs. Issues pertain to dementia, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and anyone dealing with daily living challenges.

Did you know that some professionals think that most actions stem from unfulfilled needs? We can better address the needs of those we love by comprehending this fundamental principle and then applying that understanding to reframe the illness and its effects. This book will help you acknowledge and overcome interpersonal barriers preventing you from assisting your patient. Or, if you're recently diagnosed with dementia, your caregiver will agree from the start, and you'll be able to acquire the help you require reasonably quickly.

Caring for a loved one with dementia is one of the greatest challenges one might face in life. This book brings an overview of what family caregivers must know to identify and manage dementia symptoms, to make the best plans for future care, and avoid costly mistakes as dementia progresses. Pragmatic, concise, and straight to the point, yet with poignant anecdotes and compassionate wisdom, Ahead of Dementia is a must-listen for those who want to know how best to help their loved ones while also caring for themselves

This is the story of Carolyn’s mother, her dementia, and how they navigated her journey together. Your loved one may not force feed stuffed animals vanilla pudding or burn their neighbor’s mail like Fay did, but if you’re living through the sad realities of your loved one’s slow and tortuous farewell, this book will help you find solace as you deal with it realistically and with a heart at peace.

Learn to understand and care for those with dementia or Alzheimer’s in this indispensable guide, winner of a 2021 Best Indie Book Award. If you are caring for a parent who has dementia or Alzheimer's disease, what do you do first and where can you get help? Written by a daughter who provided care for her mom, Life Giving Dementia Care is an easy-to-listen, non-technical Amazon best-selling book (May 2021) that walks you step-by-step through dealing with all stages of dementia or Alzheimer's care.

The author shares his mother's story and the lessons he learned from her transition through the different stages of dementia. By reflecting on his mother's life and legacy from a Christian perspective, the author uses her story to illustrate the different stages of dementia and the challenges he faced as a caregiver. With goal of promoting awareness, the author discusses some of the new discoveries regarding the causes and the risk factors associated with dementia and Alzheimer's

O neurocirurgião Sanjay Gupta conversou com os mais renomados cientistas do mundo para derrubar mitos comuns sobre o envelhecimento e sugerir hábitos simples capazes de postergar e reverter os efeitos do tempo. Neste audiolivro claro e acessível, ele esclarece as principais dúvidas sobre os sintomas do declínio cognitivo, explica se existe a dieta ou o exercício ideal para o cérebro e se há realmente algum benefício em medicamentos, suplementos e vitaminas.

A loved one's dementia diagnosis can leave you feeling scared and overwhelmed. Now a renowned geriatrician who has helped thousands of families live happy, engaged lives—after a dementia diagnosis—shares her expertise in this easy-to-follow guide.

To inform the public and listeners that Alzheimer's disease is a multicausal chronic age-related illness with many contributing and aggravating factors. However, there are also many modifiable factors in your control to slow and halt the progression of the disease, and to improve the symptoms and quality of life. This audiobook is written for better understanding of the unpredictable and devastating nature of Alzheimer's, to dispel any of its myths, and to encourage and bolster awareness of the mitigating and beneficial circumstances in the development of this terrible affliction.

El cuido de un ser querido con demencia es uno de los mayores desafíos que uno puede enfrentar. Requiere resistencia, creatividad, planificación cuidadosa, y un buen conocimiento de las múltiples facetas de la demencia. Este libro ofrece una visión general de lo que los familiares cuidadores deben saber para identificar y controlar los síntomas de la demencia, hacer los mejores planes para la atención futura, y evitar errores costosos a medida que avanza la enfermedad.

In this book, Stephen G. Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of "hypercognitive" values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, music, and a self that is not "gone" but "differently abled."

La enfermedad de Alzheimer es la enfermedad que probablemente más impacto social está generando a nivel de cuidados y dependencia, no solo porque la esperanza de vida es mayor que hace algunos años, sino porque afecta cada vez a edades más tempranas, y nuestra alimentación va más en contra. Las enfermedades causadas por la alimentación cada vez ocupan más lugar en la estadística de muertes en occidente.

46歳で若年性アルツハイマー型認知症と診断された夫とそれを見守る妻。絶望の淵にさした光、仲間たちとの出会い、当事者とその家族だから伝えられること。

A dementia diagnosis requires many new changes. Learn valuable tools for effective communication, reducing stress, handling difficult family members, accessing resources, and protecting your family from poor care, inappropriate placement, and other costly mistakes. Exchange fear, denial, and other barriers to success for confidence in becoming a skillful care manager for your loved one - quickly!