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Nearly four million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder affecting the memory that places great stress on the sufferer as well as the caregivers. Robert and Anne Simpson share the story of Bob's early onset of Alzheimer's in order to give families accurate, firsthand information about the disease and to give support and practical help to both patients and caregivers. Their dramatic story, told from both of their perspectives, uses journal entries, conversations, letters and prayers, to trace the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease. All who are trying to find a way through the wilderness of Alzheimer's will find understanding, compassion, practical advice, and spiritual hope in this story.
"A Time For Miracles" offers help targeted to those caring for loved ones at home. In its pages, caregivers - and those who love them - will find help, encouragement, and a virtual companion for the journey, Kathleen Brown writes from experience, but also from her heart, giving readers insight and strategies laced with hope and even humor.
An Orange Prize Finalist A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age. His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer’s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake’s memories become increasingly unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? Why is his son imprisoned? And why can’t he shake the memory of a yellow dress and one lonely, echoing gunshot? Like Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, The Wilderness holds us in its grip from the first sentence to the last with the sheer beauty of its language and its ruminations on love and loss.
A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s can be a very scary thing, as can the navigation of the progress of the disease. Patients are often anxious and unsure of how to express themselves; caregivers are often thrown into a role that they had not anticipated and are unclear how to proceed or what lies ahead. Anne Simpson, author of Through the Wilderness of Alzheimer’s and experienced Alzheimer’s caregiver has created a curriculum for anyone on a journey with dementia, The curriculum can be used in two formats: a one-day workshop (without patients) or a five-session format that can include patients. Both cover the same material, but patients may be encouraged to share their experiences in the five-session format. The curriculum deliberately allows time for reflection and includes scripture, poetry, photography and song as ways to enable that reflection. This is meant for groups up to 30 persons
Nearly five million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder affecting the memory that places great stress on sufferers as well as caregivers. Despite the difficulties Alzheimer's presents, Robert and Anne Simpson insist that "there is hope for patients and their loved ones hope that if we are willing to face our fears, accept our fate, and help each other as best we can, we will find companionship and courage on the journey." In telling the story of their journey into Alzheimer's, the Simpsons offer families accurate, first hand information about the disease, as well as support and practical help for patients and caregivers. Their dramatic story, told from both of their perspectives, uses journal entries, conversations, letters, and prayers to trace the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of Robert's condition. All who are trying to find a way through the wilderness of Alzheimer's will find understanding, compassion, practical advice, and spiritual hope in this story.
An intimate portrayal of a loving couple's struggle to accept the ravages of Alzheimer's while continuing to celebrate life and each other. A caregiver for her husband during the later stages of his disease, Ann was determined to stay in loving contact, but also to build a new life for herself. Through five sections of personal vignettes, Ann addresses difficult questions, including: How much longer can she care for her husband alone? How and when will she make the choice for residential care? How will she deal with the inevitable letting go? Walking by the lake near the care center one day Julian stops his gibberish long enough to tell her, "I'm okay, really okay. Now you be okay too."
Adeptly navigating between elegy and celebration, fear and determination, confusion and clarity, DeBaggio delivers an exquisitely moving and inspiring book that will resonate with all those who have grappled with their own or their loved ones' memory loss and with death. With his first memoir, Losing My Mind, Thomas DeBaggio stunned readers by laying bare his faltering mind in a haunting and beautiful meditation on the centrality of memory to human life, and on his loss of it to early-onset Alzheimer's disease. In this second extraordinary narrative, he confronts the ultimate loss: that of life. And as only DeBaggio could, he treats death as something to honor, to marvel at, to learn from. Charting the progression of his disease with breathtaking honesty, DeBaggio deftly describes the frustration, grief, and terror of grappling with his deteriorating intellectual faculties. Even more affecting, the prose itself masterfully represents the mental vicissitudes of his disease—DeBaggio's fragments of memory, observation, and rumination surface and subside in the reader's experience much as they might in his own mind. His frank, lilting voice and abundant sense of wonder bind these fragments into a fluid and poetic portrait of life and loss. Over the course of the book, DeBaggio revisits many of the people, places, and events of his life, both in his memory and in fact. In a sense, he is saying goodbye, paying his respects to the world as it recedes from him—and it is a poignant irony that even as this happens, he is at the height of his remarkable descriptive powers. In his moments of clarity, his love for life's details only grows deeper and richer: the limestone creek where he has fished for years; his satisfying and lonely herb farming days; the goldfish pond his son designed and built in his backyard in honor of DeBaggio's passion for "any hole in the ground with some liquid in it"; the thirty years in his beloved home in Arlington, Virginia; his early career as a muckraker; the innumerable precious moments spent with his wife and son; his belated grief over his parents' deaths.
Approaching Wilderness is a collection of six stories dealing with dementia, originally published in various literary journals. The author was inspired by his late mother's struggles with the disease during her last years. He explores the questions that all family members must eventually face: Where does that beloved person go? What goes on in the secret life of her mind? The stories, filled with humor and compassion, are one man's attempt to understand the tragic heartache of dementia.
John Albert was fifty-four years old when the first symptoms of early onset Alzheimer's appeared. He was a family man who loved life and everything it had to offer. John was an outdoorsman with an ambition to own and develop a small part of British Columbia's wilderness crown land. He succeeded but when he walked on it for the last time, this mind-robbing illness had already left its mark on him. He did not recognize it as "his land" any longer. John battled the aggressive disease for ten years, supported by his family. The day finally came when his wife, Dagmar, had to make the heart-wrenching decision to place her husband in a care facility. Five years later, his condition had progressed to a point where he had to be transferred to the extended care unit of the local hospital. He passed away two years later. John was seventy years old.
This book provides a vivid story of life with Alzheimersor at least, one story of one family with an unusual sense of humor. Told in an unconventional style (through the alphabet rather than chronologically), Leslie F. Hergert describes the sadness, humor, and challenges of caring for a partner with Alzheimers Disease through its many stages. Each letter of the alphabet provides reflections on some facet of the Alzheimers experience, told with honesty and a wry eye. Leslie spoke at our conference on Dementia and attendees said that her stories were the most powerful part of a very good conference. Her book extends that speech to provide an inside view of living with Alzheimers, a comfort for others living with the disease and an education for outsiders. Nancy Willbanks, Somerville Cambridge Elder Services Ms. Hergert writes candidly and poignantly about her experience caring for her husband with early onset Alzheimers Disease. She touches upon the major cognitive, psychological, and functional changes that occur over the course of the disease, and she provides practical tips to caregivers on how to manage them. She also writes movingly about the multiple emotions she felt as she accompanied her husband on the journey, reminding all of us that there are moments of joy and laughter even among those of loss and grief. I have no doubt that readers will find her words of wisdom helpful. Serena Chao, MD, MSc; Geriatrics Division Chief, Cambridge Health Alliance; Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School