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Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning poet Jeanne Murray Walker tells an extraordinarily wise, witty, and quietly wrenching tale of her mother's long passage into dementia. This powerful story explores parental love, profound grief, and the unexpected consolation of memory. While Walker does not flinch from the horrors of "the ugly twins, aging and death," her eye for the apt image provides a window into unexpected joy and humor even during the darkest days. This is a multi-layered...
42) The longevity kitchen: satisfying, big-flavor recipes featuring the top 16 age-busting power foods
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of 120 whole-foods, big-flavor recipes that combat and prevent chronic diseases and other conditions that plague American adults, enabling readers to live longer, healthier lives"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
** Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. ** The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone...
44) Dadland
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. For most of her adult life, Keggie was kept at arm's length from her father's personal history, but when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs--an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British intelligence agencies during World War II--a new door opens...
Author
Language
English
Description
A revolutionary, proven program for reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline from award winning neurologists and codirectors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Over 47 million people are currently living with Alzheimer's disease worldwide. While all other major diseases are in decline, deaths from Alzheimer's have increased radically. What you or your loved ones...
47) Savages
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Jon and Wendy Savage (Hoffman and Linney) are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny (Bosco). Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and her family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel...
Author
Language
English
Description
A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from - memory.
At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes - in interests, goals, and behaviour - until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.
A diagnosis is seven years away,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover the Definitive Guide to Addressing Dementia's Impact Are you concerned about the effects of dementia on your loved ones or community? Be well-prepared and well-informed with this invaluable guide, expertly written by an occupational therapist.This comprehensive book offers up-to-date knowledge on all aspects of dementia - from identification and causes to effective coping strategies and assistive technology. It goes beyond information, fostering...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alzheimer's disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world's most common causes of death. Alzheimer's lingers for years, with patients' outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Patients lose the ability towork and live independently, to remember and recognize. There is still no proven way to treat Alzheimer's because its causes remain unknown. Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer's...
51) Before I forget
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, "What are we going to do? How long are we staying?" It's like I'm talking to my other self--the self I used to be. She tells me, "This is what we need to buy--not that." I'm conscious of that other self guiding me now." Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo Vital
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Muchas personas conocen a un sobreviviente de cáncer, pero nadie podría decir que ha conocido a uno de Alzheimer... hasta ahora. En sus primeros dos libros el doctor Dale E. Bredesen compartió con sus lectores el revolucionario tratamiento que sigue cambiando vidas y que ha logrado revertir el deterioro cognitivo y la demencia. Ahora, en Los primeros sobrevivientes del Alzheimer son los pacientes de este programa quienes hablan de sus increíbles...
Author
Language
English
Description
REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR DEMENTIA CAREGIVING WITH KNOWLEDGE & PRACTICAL TIPS
This book for dealing with dementia loved ones equips you with everything you need to become a better dementia caregiver.
The book provides insight into the patient's perspective as well as the caregiver's perspective, helping you understand what your dearest one is going through living with dementia. By keeping lines of communication open and never giving up hope, you can create...
54) Sensory Processing Disorder: Parent's Guide To The Treatment Options You Need to Help Your Child
Author
Language
English
Description
Sensory processing disorder is a disorder where the brain has trouble getting and giving an answer to information that comes in through the senses.
This is book explains Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) in a simplified and precise way, and presents a drug-free approach that provides expect parents.
Cravings for sensation? The "sensory craver" never gets enough of certain sensations, e.g., messy fun, spicy food, noisy action, and perpetual movement.
Poor...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Brain imaging research demonstrates that memory loss actually starts in the brain decades before you have any symptoms. Learn the actions you can take to help not just prevent memory loss later in life ... but to begin restoring the memory you may have already lost."--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.
Jennifer Heisz shares paradigm-shifting research on how exercise affects the brain, finding that intervals of intense workouts, or even leisurely walks, help stop depression and dementia, lessen anxiety and ADHD, and encourage...
Author
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking multicultural anthology shares moving personal stories about the impacts of Alzheimer's and dementia.
An estimated 5.7 million Americans are afflicted by Alzheimer's disease, including 10 percent of those over sixty-five, and it is the sixth leading cause of death. But its effects are more pervasive: for the nearly 6 million sufferers, there are more than 16 million family caregivers and many more family members. Alzheimer's wreaks...
Author
Language
English
Description
Andrea struggles to mourn a man who is still alive as she witnesses her father decline into the depths of Alzheimer's. Denial and devastation color her life when she learns her father, Richard, a recently retired surgeon, is diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the age of 67. Her dream to grow closer with him is crushed as the reality of his disease is fully realized. Andrea, a mother of three young children, learns to balance motherhood with daughterhood...
Author
Language
English
Description
While growing older is inevitable, many of the troubles we associate with aging--including dementia, disability, and an increased dependence on others--are not. The choices we make now can help us to maintain our vitality, a sharp mind, and our independence as we age. Filled with simple, everyday actions we can take to avoid disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late onset Alzheimer's, The Aging Brain is an easy-to-use guide to maintaining...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The first 30-Day nutrition plan for preventing and reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and cognitive decline from Co-Directors of the Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center"--
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