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Author | : Rachael Dixey |
Publisher | : Medina Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781909339736 |
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This is a love story from start to finish, Irene and Rachael's. Based on the diaries of Rachael Dixey who looked after her civil partner Irene after she developed early onset Alzheimer's disease, the book opens with the lines: Irene, Alzheimer's and me - Alzheimer's came between us. It does that, drives you and the love of your life apart, going your separate ways because you cannot follow. That's the story really, that's it. The end. But it is also the beginning of the story, which shows how life can still be lived despite losing a life partner to dementia, and how to cope emotionally and practically with a disease that robs you of your loved one a thousand times before they die. The story charts the daily decline and inexorable loss of Irene to dementia. With the dramatic deterioration in Irene's health Rachael turns from lover and soul mate to career and, finally, single woman. Eventually, no longer able to cope with Irene at home, she makes the agonizing decision to allow Irene to be put in a care home. There she spent her last six years. When she died aged 66, the couple had spent half their life together. This book is a powerful and moving account of the progression of dementia, and raises serious questions about how our society cares for those who develop the disease, especially at a young age and in the gay, lesbian community. It also deals with loss and grief, during the illness and afterwards. Their memoir will be invaluable for anyone affected by dementia, those working in mental health and those caring for a loved one with a life-changing and incurable illness. Our Dementia Diary tells with brutal honesty of love, loss and life with Alzheimer's and opens up discussion of how dementia can be handled better.
Author | : Margaret R. Miles |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2017-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498282385 |
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The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries discusses a disease that is both personal and social for more than five million patients and their families and friends in the United States today. Now that there are medical strategies for preventing and/or curing strokes, heart attacks, even cancer, many more people are going to live into the dementia years in the near future. Although many dementia horror stories circulate in conversation and in the media, they are not the whole story. Creative approaches to loving a dementia patient can make for a valuable learning experience for family and caregivers. In The Long Goodbye Margaret Miles describes her commitment to making--rather than passively suffering--her spouse's dementia experience. Family and friends who accompany patients find embedded in the experience moments of great beauty, hilariously funny incidents, new companions, and life insights. The narrative provides both a travelogue and suggestions for a richly meaningful life passage for all participants. The Long Goodbye seeks to supply a balanced picture of a disease usually represented as unmitigated loss.
Author | : Matthew Snyman |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1784502855 |
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Longlisted for the School Library Association's Information Book Award 2017 - 'Over 12' category. Brie's Granddad has always been a serious man, never without a newspaper and knowing the answer to everything. But now he keeps losing track of the conversation, and honestly, Brie doesn't really know how to speak to him. At first, Fred was annoyed that Gramps had come to live with them, it meant he had to give up his room! But then he starts to enjoy watching old films with him and spending time together... although there's the small problem of Gramps calling him Simon. Follow the stories of Brie, Fred, and other young carers as they try to understand and cope with their grandparents' dementia at all stages of the illness. Adapted from true stories, and supplemented with fun activities and discussion ideas, this book for children aged approximately 7-14 cuts to the truth of the experience of dementia and tackles stigma with a warm and open perspective.
Author | : Robert Tell |
Publisher | : Robert Tell |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1411665775 |
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PAPERBACK & DOWNLOAD EDITIONS---For 15 years, Robert Tell was his widowed Mom's caregiver as her mind and personality disappeared into the fog of dementia. He tells the tale with compassion and humor in this full length, fast moving memoir. His lesson: Caregiver burnout can be helped. If you are watching your loved one vanish into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), "Dementia Diary" will lift your spirits.
Author | : Keith Oliver |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-04-18 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1784508985 |
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Keith Oliver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2010, and has since become a leading activist for dementia care, and an international speaker. Telling his story through a diary format, this book gives an unparalleled insight into what day-to-day life with dementia is like, and how he continued to live a full life after diagnosis.
Author | : Wendy Howles |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 148365253X |
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The true happenings of the time in the life of Nellie May born in April. A little joke we shared with Nellie regarding when she was born. Nellie did not have a happy childhood with a dad who beat her, she went through traumatic times when she had to go in the air raid shelter during the war when she was growing up. She went to a comprehensive school and started work at the age of 14. When Nellie was in her fifties, she liked to have a drink. I remember one day a taxi driver came to our house and asked if Nellie was at home I said no, he said I think I have her in my car (and he had). Looking back, we had some very funny times. Nellie was the life and soul of the party. She was feisty, head strong, not afraid to speak her mind, funny, loving, caring and beautiful she would do anything for anyone. She loved to dance and sing and play the organ. Nellie was in her eighties when she developed the terrible disease dementia, of which these diaries are about to tell. There were sad times but also some happy times. Nellie would always pronounce the word baby as babby as that is how she would say it. These diaries tell of what happened during her time with dementia.
Author | : Robert Tell |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-11-14 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1411665805 |
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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
Author | : Maggie Anderson |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1543480861 |
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The Dementia Diary is a story of two journeys. The first is that of an elderly woman diagnosed with dementia, navigating her ever-shrinking world. The second journey is that of her daughters traveling a path from disbelief to acceptance. The pain of dealing with a loved one who is experiencing dementia would be absolutely unbearable if you cannot recognize the tenderness, acknowledge the frustration, and find the humor.
Author | : John Killick |
Publisher | : Journal of Dementia Care and Hawker Publications |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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This collection from renowned author John Killick invites us into the lives of people with dementia. Through the poems and stories he opens our eyes, ears, hearts and minds so that we see, hear and understand so much more about dementia and individuals, their joys, humour and fears. Those who are experienced will instantly recognize the truths and significance of the poems and stories, offering as they do a fresh and uncluttered path to deeper understanding. The poems in Part 2 are based on transcripts of dementia patients' speech: The subsequent work consists of a selection, but I never alter a word. The finished poem is presented to the individual for approval and permission to publish.--Introduction
Author | : Margaret R. Miles |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498282393 |
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The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries discusses a disease that is both personal and social for more than five million patients and their families and friends in the United States today. Now that there are medical strategies for preventing and/or curing strokes, heart attacks, even cancer, many more people are going to live into the dementia years in the near future. Although many dementia horror stories circulate in conversation and in the media, they are not the whole story. Creative approaches to loving a dementia patient can make for a valuable learning experience for family and caregivers. In The Long Goodbye Margaret Miles describes her commitment to making--rather than passively suffering--her spouse's dementia experience. Family and friends who accompany patients find embedded in the experience moments of great beauty, hilariously funny incidents, new companions, and life insights. The narrative provides both a travelogue and suggestions for a richly meaningful life passage for all participants. The Long Goodbye seeks to supply a balanced picture of a disease usually represented as unmitigated loss.