[PDF] Hope For The Alzheimers Journey eBook

Author : Carol B. Amos
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2018-06-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1683509048

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“A useful, step-by-step guide for anyone new to caring for those with Alzheimer’s.” —Library Journal H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey equips Alzheimer’s caregivers with knowledge, tools, and advice for their difficult road ahead. Author Carol B. Amos incorporates her own experience—including her family’s email correspondence illustrating how they coped during this particular challenge. Amos also introduces The Caregiving Principle™: a simple approach that provides a deeper understanding of a person with Alzheimer’s disease and a framework for the caregiver’s role. She provides examples of how The Caregiving Principle™ helped her connect with her mother. H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey encourages caregivers to take care for themselves and provides inspiration for a less stressful, more rewarding journey.

Author : Carol B. Amos
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781683509035

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H.O.P.E for the Alzheimer's Journey provides hope in a handbook for a less stressful and more rewarding caregiver's Alzheimer's Journey.

Author : Deborah Shouse
Publisher : Central Recovery Press, LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1937612503

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Caregiver Shouse celebrates spiritual and practical lessons learned on her unscripted yet rewarding journey with her mother through Alzheimer's disease.

Author : R. J. Thesman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2017-01-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781542569125

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Caregivers of Alzheimer's patients grieve through the Long Good-bye while trying to meet the needs of their loved ones. These caregivers need a nugget of hope - to know they are not alone. Sharing the authenticity of the caregivers' challenges, "Sometimes They Forget" presents essays and meditations describing the caregiving battle within Alzheimer's Disease. RJ Thesman writes from the viewpoint of a long-distance caregiver whose mother is disappearing within the shadows of the Long Goodbye. With this series of essays and meditations, Thesman presents tips for caregivers, personal family memories and the sacred space Alzheimer's cannot touch. For a better understanding of the caregiving journey, explore these empathic stories about loved ones who sometimes forget.

Author : Jolene Brackey
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1612494838

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The beloved best seller has been revised and expanded for the fifth edition. Jolene Brackey has a vision: that we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to focus more of our energies on creating moments of joy. When people have short-term memory loss, their lives are made up of moments. We are not able to create perfectly wonderful days for people with dementia or Alzheimer's, but we can create perfectly wonderful moments, moments that put a smile on their faces and a twinkle in their eyes. Five minutes later, they will not remember what we did or said, but the feeling that we left them with will linger. The new edition of Creating Moments of Joy is filled with more practical advice sprinkled with hope, encouragement, new stories, and generous helpings of humor. In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves.

Author : Pauline Boss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1118077288

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Research-based advice for people who care for someone with dementia Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques, but about how to manage on-going stress and grief. The book is for caregivers, family members, friends, neighbors as well as educators and professionals—anyone touched by the epidemic of dementia. Dr. Boss helps caregivers find hope in "ambiguous loss"—having a loved one both here and not here, physically present but psychologically absent. Outlines seven guidelines to stay resilient while caring for someone who has dementia Discusses the meaning of relationships with individuals who are cognitively impaired and no longer as they used to be Offers approaches to understand and cope with the emotional strain of care-giving Boss's book builds on research and clinical experience, yet the material is presented as a conversation. She shows you a way to embrace rather than resist the ambiguity in your relationship with someone who has dementia.

Author : Gary Chapman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0802494412

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Across America and around the world, the five love languages have revitalized relationships and saved marriages from the brink of disaster. Can they also help individuals, couples, and families cope with the devastating diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD)? Coauthors Chapman, Shaw, and Barr give a resounding yes. Their innovative application of the five love languages creates an entirely new way to touch the lives of the five million Americans who have Alzheimer’s, as well as their fifteen million caregivers. At its heart, this book is about how love gently lifts a corner of dementia’s dark curtain to cultivate an emotional connection amid memory loss. This collaborative, groundbreaking work between a healthcare professional, caregiver, and relationship expert will: Provide an overview of the love languages and Alzheimer’s disease, correlate the love languages with the developments of the stages of AD, discuss how both the caregiver and care receiver can apply the love languages, address the challenges and stresses of the caregiver journey, offer personal stories and case studies about maintaining emotional intimacy amidst AD. Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade is heartfelt and easy to apply, providing gentle, focused help for those feeling overwhelmed by the relational toll of Alzheimer’s. Its principles have already helped hundreds of families, and it can help yours, too.

Author : Helene Berger
Publisher : Select Books (NY)
Page : pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590794869

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Choosing Joy by Helene Berger is a book of hope, a personal journey from a woman who was determined to stay positive in the face of her husband's diagnosis, and an inspiration to other caregivers. Helene Berger began this book unwittingly, pieced together from a journal she began keeping after her husband Ady's diagnosis with Alzheimer's. It describes her real life experiences - the mistakes and the successes that allowed the couple to build the best life possible in the face of this terrible illness. When Helen consciously chose to seek joy every day, both for herself and her husband, Ady began to experience a remarkable and unprecedented regeneration. During the last two years of his illness, he did what is often considered impossible: played Mozart on the piano, solved Sudoku puzzles, drew pictures, and wrote nightly love letters to his wife. Without downplaying the negative effects of Alzheimer's, Helen writes about how she was able to craft a truly beautiful life for both of them. In addition to chronicling her individual journey, she offers the unthinkable to an Alzheimer's caregiver - hope. She imparts strategies and advice for other caregivers to help make the final years of life together as positive as they can be. Ranging from to tips for avoiding confrontation to dealing with inappropriate behavior, these techniques serve to make life as an Alzheimer's caregiver not only more bearable, but truly joyous.

Author : Carlen Maddux
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612618766

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Just days after turning fifty, Martha Maddux, a spirited mother and civic activist, was told she had Alzheimer’s disease. She and husband Carlen felt as though they’d been shoved out of a plane 10,000 feet up, with nothing to grab but themselves. A Path Revealed is not about the fallout from an insidious disease that extended over seventeen years. It is the story of a path of hope emerging during the darkest hours - a path that lifted Carlen and Martha above the devastating symptoms of this disease. Carlen traveled with Martha to the backwoods of Kentucky, where the quiet presence of a Catholic nun revealed a hidden path. He was forced to slow down as he traced this path halfway around the world to Australia, retreated weekends to a monastery, embraced meditation, and landed all alone in Thomas Merton’s cabin. This story conveys a message of hope and joy in the midst of an almost overwhelming tragedy.

Author : Deborah Shouse
Publisher : Central Recovery Press, LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 193761249X

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Caregiver Shouse celebrates spiritual and practical lessons learned on her unscripted yet rewarding journey with her mother through Alzheimer's disease.