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Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to mention confronting the hard truth that her own odds aren't great. In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers...
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A guide for information about Alzheimer's disease, early signs, how to diagnose, how to adjust, common life challenges, how to lower risk, and other dementias"--
"It can be terrifying to witness a loved one’s cognitive decline. But for millions of families around the world, that fear becomes reality year after year. Researchers estimate that more than 150 million people around the world could be living with dementia by 2050. While there is currently...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The dementia journey for both caregiver and patient can be chaotic and scary, and while there is no cure for dementia, there ARE interventions that can help make the journey a calmer and more comfortable one. Barbara Huelat offers practical strategies tomitigate the turbulence of dementia care"--
"A hopeful and practical guide to taming the challenges of dementia with creative interventions inspired by real stories of sufferers and caregivers alike....
4) The 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease and other dementias
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For four decades, this guide has been the leading reference for those who take care of people with dementia. The new seventh edition reflects updates in the field, including discussion of working with home care aides, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Huntington disease, and promising potential therapies such as electrical signaling and nerve growth factors"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A neuroscientist takes readers on a journey around the world and through history, from nineteenth-century Germany to present day India, to examine the science and scientists working to find a cure to Alzheimer's disease
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