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"Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it dictate his life and instead asked himself: What makes life meaningful, and how do I want to live the rest of mine? His decision led them to learn about Dignitas and to fly to Zürich for a peaceful ending of Brian's...
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Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, award-winning journalist Richard Lui left his national news anchor job to care for Dad--no small decision. But decisions to be selfless are rarely so dramatic. Enough About Me equips you with the practical tools to find meaning and compassion in even the smallest of everyday choices"--
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"An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating...
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Deeply in love, Cal and Mary brave divorce, marry, and help each other succeed in their work. Cal becomes a renowned inventor, Mary a best-selling author. Then Alzheimer's strikes. Cal faces his disease courageously, Mary finds ways to sustain their relationship despite it. While they don't beat Alzheimer's, it doesn't win either. Their love persists throughout and beyond their battle.--
12) The long goodbye
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English
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The daughter of Ronald Reagan describes losing her father to the ravages of Alzheimer's, linking memories of her life to a study of Reagan the man, the actor, and the politician, and the toll of the disease on her father and his family.
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Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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This book explains Alzheimer's disease to children in a simple and meaningful way, and features illustrations by children side-by-side with illustrations by adults with Alzheimer's in order to help children learn how the mind interprets the world.
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself - Maggie faces some of the world's most exotic locales while...
16) The stone wall
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English
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"Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome Mennonite, takes the young Beachy Amish woman under his wing...
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Springboard
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Documents the story of a WCBS radio anchor who left her high-powered job to care for her Alzheimer's patient father, describing the lifestyle differences she embraced, her observations about the caregiver's role, and her relationships with her father andhis doctors.
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English
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"Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old, knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. She also knows there's just one another resident her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life at Rosalind House. As her disease steals more and more of her memory,...
19) Remember
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Redemption volume 2
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English
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The Redemption series won "Christian Retailing"s 2005 Retailers Choice Award for Best Series! Convinced she could make it on her own, Ashley Baxter has kept the most important people in her life at a distanceher family, the man who loves her, and the God she is sure can never forgive her. Now, just as she begins to open her heart, the events of September 11 rip into Ashleys world and she is led to heartbreaking and...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"These compelling case histories meld science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them. After getting a master's degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in caregiver for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer's disease. For a year, she endured the emotional strain of looking after a person whose condition disrupts the rules of time,...
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