Adventure Before Dementia Down Under

Author : Vivian Vass
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535015950
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure Before Dementia Down Under written by Vivian Vass and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully entertaining adventure of a middle-aged couple, Vivian and Scott, who decide to take the road less travelled and join the brigade of the grey-nomad . They voluntarily drop out of the system and daringly sell the family home, waving "see you in a while" to the kids. They follow their heart, wherever it took them. Their exploits lead them to some unfathomable discoveries and experiences through the thrilling Red Centre of Outback Australia and beyond. They come face to face with astonishing characters and animals, unique to this vast continent in their natural habitat. This exploration of the country leads them to a personal exploration and discovery which is depicted in Vivian's humorous and insightful descriptions of their new life. Supported by dramatic photos the story unfolds into unexpected revelations in a raw and honest way.

Author : Kathleen Ann Bulfin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in DeMOMtia written by Kathleen Ann Bulfin and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen and her mother had always enjoyed a typical mother and daughter relationship, which included things like shoe shopping, trips to Wal-Mart and throwing one another under the bus. When Kathleen's mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2014, Kathleen feared her relationship with her mother would change forever. Months into the disease, Kathleen was able to look past her grief and focus on the interactions she had with her mother. It was then that she realized that dementia may have robbed her mother of parts of her memory, it didn't change who her mother was inside. This memoir is a hilarious, heart-warming memoir of visits between Kathleen and her Ma. Where they discuss everything from how hot a cup of coffee should be to fashion choices to doling out bits of Irish wisdom.Come join us in our Adventures in DeMomtia.

Author : Neil Mapes
Publisher : Neil Mapes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Dementia to Adventure written by Neil Mapes and published by Neil Mapes. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dementia to adventure, in the travel literature genre, is an experiential journey in and around Peru. Neil Mapes put his life in London, which included working with people with dementia, on hold to take a career break in Peru. The two-month journey took place during August and September of 2001 and involved the lone circumnavigation of an enchanting country. London and dementia are swapped for Lima and adventure. The struggles with dementia are left behind for new adventures. After the dirt and danger of Lima the journey proceeds down the coast to the tourist highlight of Pisco and the natural beauty of Las Islas Ballestras. Then it is onward into the depths of the Andes to Arequipa, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco and the famous Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The mountains are left behind as the journey flows into the Amazon jungle and weeks are spent getting lost in time and space before traversing the Andes once more to experience the lesser travelled towns and cities of the North coast before returning to Lima. The country and its many offerings are seen at first hand and reflected on with humour and compassion. This work is like a cross between ‘Round Ireland with a fridge’ and ‘The Celestine prophecy.’ It explores the highs and lows of independent travel and how enriching this form of travel is. It is aimed both at the serious traveller, who wants to take a break from their current career life and get a feel of the country they are to visit in a way that a guidebook cannot provide, and the armchair traveller who is in search of escape into a new world. It will appeal to people who like to reflect on the experiences of meeting people and visiting places. The primary theme throughout is one of connecting with the local people and the landscape. There are many Peruvians who are met and influence this journey. Some of these include Armando who dispenses his advice on his beloved country, Monica the barmaid in the fishing town of Pisco, there is the Ayahuasca jungle artist called George, Christian missionaries on the north coast and love with a girl named Elsa on the way back to Lima. The secondary theme is that of spiritual discovery and development. The stresses of modern city life are put on hold to reflect on what is important in life - time for the soul to grow. At each stage of the journey there is time for inner searching and contemplation. The questions asked are the central questions that exist in all our lives, for example: ‘What am I here for?’ ‘What am I doing with my life? It aims to allow people to discover their own spirituality, to assess where their lives are going and how to make the best of the time we each have. For the many readers that may have found themselves wrapped up in a career they no longer care for, or one in which they are becoming weary, this work gives them one example of how to break this downward spiral. If each person that reads this work asks himself or herself the following question then the writing will have achieved its goal. ‘What do I really want to do and to be before I die?’

Author : Steph Jagger
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250261856
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Left to Remember written by Steph Jagger and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle." - Publishers Weekly Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and—perhaps most heartbreaking of all—Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it. Too aware of her mother’s waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana—which her mother, on the urging of Steph’s father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and “tenting” out West quickly turns into one woman’s reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood—and what it means to love someone who doesn’t quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming. A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.

Author : Paul Doiron
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250235081
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Last Lie written by Paul Doiron and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of Mike Bowditch’s beloved mentor reveals an ominous connection to a 15-year-old cold case in One Last Lie, the new thriller from bestselling Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron. “Never trust a man without secrets.” These are the last words retired game warden Charley Stevens speaks to his surrogate son, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, before the old man vanishes without explanation. Mike suspects his friend’s mysterious departure has to do with an antique warden badge that recently resurfaced at a flea market — a badge connected to a cold case from Charley’s past that the Maine Warden Service would rather forget. Fifteen years ago, a young warden was sent on an undercover mission to infiltrate a notorious poaching ring and never returned. He was presumed dead, but his body was never recovered. Mike is desperate to find Charley before he meets a similar fate. His investigation brings him to the miles of forest and riverside towns along the Canadian border—but he soon learns that even his fellow wardens have secrets to keep. And Charley’s past isn’t the only one coming to light; his daughter, Stacey, has resurfaced to search for her missing father, and Mike must grapple with the return of the woman he once thought was gone forever. Forced to question his faith in the man he sees as a father, Mike must reopen a cold case that powerful people—one of whom may be a killer—will do anything to keep closed.

Author : Greg O'Brien
Publisher : Good Night books
ISBN 13 : 0991340191
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's written by Greg O'Brien and published by Good Night books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the US—and the only one of these diseases on the rise. More than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia; about 35 million people worldwide. Greg O’Brien, an award-winning investigative reporter, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and is one of those faceless numbers. Acting on long-term memory and skill coupled with well-developed journalistic grit, O’Brien decided to tackle the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the journey. O’Brien is a master storyteller. His story is naked, wrenching, and soul searching for a generation and their loved ones about to cross the threshold of this death in slow motion. On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s is a trail-blazing roadmap for a generation—both a “how to” for fighting a disease, and a “how not” to give up!

Author : Susan Cerulean
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357383
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird written by Susan Cerulean and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.

Author : Nicci Gerrard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525521984
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Ocean written by Nicci Gerrard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journeys of the people who live with the condition and those of their loved ones After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital stay precipitated a dramatic turn for the worse, Gerrard, an award-winning journalist and author, recognized that it was not just the disease, but misguided protocol and harmful practices that cause such pain at the end of life. Gerrard was inspired to seek a better course for all who suffer because of the disease. The Last Ocean is Gerrard’s investigation into what dementia does to both the person who lives with the condition and to their caregivers. Dementia is now one of the leading causes of death in the West, and this necessary book will offer both comfort and a map to those walking through it. While she begins with her father’s long slip into forgetting, Gerrard expands to examine dementia writ large. Gerrard gives raw but literary shape both to the unimaginable loss of one’s own faculties, as well as to the pain of their loved ones. Her lens is unflinching, but Gerrard honors her subjects and finds the beauty and the humanity in their seemingly diminished states. In so doing, she examines the philosophy of what it means to have a self, as well as how we can offer dignity and peace to those who suffer with this terrible disease. Not only will it aid those walking with dementia patients, The Last Ocean will prompt all of us to think on the nature of a life well lived.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: