The Hidden Victims Of Alzheimers Disease

Author : Steven H. Zarit
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081479663X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Victims of Alzheimer's Disease written by Steven H. Zarit and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1985-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable resource guide for anyone working with persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease, this is the first book to present a step-by-step program to help families cope with the day-to-day problems arising from this disease. Using detailed case examples, the authors offer unique and effective strategies to help the family—and the patient—have enjoyable and more productive lives. "Well written and eminently practical guide for families struggling with the burdens of Alzheimer's disease." —Peter V. Rabins, M.D., John Hopkins University School of Medicine, author of Thirty-Six Hour Day "An outstanding book dealing knowledgeably and sensitively with a painful disease affecting millions of American familes." —Robert N. Butler, M.D., Brookdale Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

Author : Lela Knox Shanks
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293281
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks written by Lela Knox Shanks and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks is Lela Knox Shanks’s personal account of caring for her husband, Hughes, in their home after he was stricken with Alzheimer’s disease. Lela describes her initial denial, her discovery of coping skills, her eventual acceptance of his illness, and her ultimate recognition that the key to successful caregiving lies in never losing sight of the patient’s humanness. The book outlines twenty coping and survival strategies to guide caregivers to untapped inner resources and shows caregiving’s intangible rewards of increased self-respect and self-knowledge.

Author : Earlene Cummings-Lamnek
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617392944
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Parents' Passing written by Earlene Cummings-Lamnek and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlene Cummings-Lamnek's parents were always loving and wise and trustworthy, So it never crossed her mind that one day she would have to face the harsh reality of Alzheimer's. In My Parents' Passing, Earlene candidly presents her captivating story and shares the heart-wrenching decisions she was forced to make as first her father, then her mother, succumbed To The disease. Woven throughout this book are the ten warning signs of Alzheimer's alongside examples of these as displayed in Earlene's parents. Whether someone you know is one of the 5.3 million in America currently affected or you just would like information and advice from one who's been there, My Parents' Passing is the perfect inspirational tool you've been waiting for.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FDA Consumer written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan F. Sharp
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535845
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Victims written by Susan F. Sharp and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In the US, murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are usually considered as entirely different from the rest of us. Sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges perspective by reminding us that those facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons.

Author : Taher Zandi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461306655
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease written by Taher Zandi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of Alzheimer's Disease and the related dementias is one of the major challenges to health care professionals and American society-at-large for the coming decade and the coming millennium. The rapid growth of the over-eighty-five population, the group which, as recent studies have confirmed and as many of us clinicians have long suspected, has an even higher prevalence than previously quoted of dementing disorders, is the major cause of this. We are thus challenged by, as Bernard Issacs used to call it, "the survival of the unfittest," as well as the oPtimistic approach of "bringing life to years," as John F. Kennedy said. The fact is that we, as a society, tend to confuse "treatment" and "cure" (and "prevention"). As the proceedings of the conference which this book represents emphasize, there is considerable work going on about the potential prevention of, or at least the reduction of, symptomatology in these illnesses by interventions genetically, chemIcally, and so forth. However, the more we find out, the more complicated it becomes, and the more heterogeneous Alzheimer's and the related disorders appear to be, not only in their manifestations (as clinicians have long recognized) but also in the individual initiating and underlying processes. For these reasons, absolute preventive techniques or the likelihood of an intervention which will reverse the process in a high proportion of patients, do not appear to be just around the corner.

Author : Amanda Hampson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957805804
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Me Home written by Amanda Hampson and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every person who has Alzheimer's, at least one other loved one's life is changed. This is the first survival guide to explore Alzheimer's through the eyes of these hidden victims. It provides practical and emotional support to families by guiding them through symptoms, stages and treatment.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funding of Alzheimer's Disease Research and Respite Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John C. Norcross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199915156
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Help That Works written by John C. Norcross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published under title: Authoritative guide to self-help resources in mental health.

Author : Anne Hendershott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313000352
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Caregivers written by Anne Hendershott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Hendershott has spent many years teaching and writing about the sociological aspects of aging, she writes that none of this could have prepared me for the overwhelming challenge of caring for my own mother-in-law in my home. She introduces baby boomers as the unexpected caregivers of the coming decades. The process of family denial about symptoms, work-family conflict, and the unique problems of children of caregivers are explored in an effort to find solutions to the caregiving challenge. Social science research is made accessible and is coupled with anecdotal information gleaned from interactions with other caregivers and personal experience. Throughout the book, Hendershott shows family caregivers that by gaining insight into their motivations for caregiving and by drawing from family support and help from the community, they can move beyond maladaptive caregiving coping styles, to a rewarding reality-based caregiving experience.