Life Giving Dementia Care

Let's Talk: How to Bring Confidence, Compassion, and Joy into Your Role as a Caregiver

By: Toni Kanzler

Narrated by: Toni Kanzler

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Learn to understand and care for those with dementia or Alzheimer’s in this indispensable guide, winner of a 2021 Best Indie Book Award.

If you are caring for a parent who has dementia or Alzheimer's disease, what do you do first and where can you get help?

Written by a daughter who provided care for her mom, Life Giving Dementia Care is an easy-to-listen, non-technical Amazon best-selling book (May 2021) that walks you step-by-step through dealing with all stages of dementia or Alzheimer's care. It’s like you’re chatting with a friend who has “been there and done that”, candidly sharing their own fears, pain, joys, and lessons learned as a caregiver.

Featuring useful chapter takeaway summaries and an appendix with helpful resources and comments by other caregivers, inside you’ll learn to:

• Spot early signs and get a diagnosis
• Understand and manage their mental and physical decline and increasing medical needs
• Work with daycare, in-home, and nursing homes
• Make financial, legal, and funeral plans
• And finally, how to care for yourself and recover

The key purpose of this essential book is to help caregivers be confident, and even experience joy, as they provide care for a parent, the elderly, or other adults with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Life Giving Dementia Care, a book about Alzheimer’s and dementia care, will help both family members and caregivers understand and meet the many challenges of this disease. Buy a copy now for yourself and a friend.

©2020 Toni Kanzler (P)2022 Toni Kanzler

A perfect depiction of dementia and end of life

My mother passed away a few years ago from congestive heart failure. The inability of her body to circulate blood efficiently, as well as her advanced age, caused her to experience dementia-related episodes much like Toni described. Toni's advice about dealing with parents and doctors would have been incredibly helpful to me at the time, but I am glad that she can share her mother's story and allow others to benefit from her experience. I highly recommend the book.

A Special Guide...One Caregiver to Another

In a soothing voice Ms. Kanzler offers practical advice and encouragement for the caregivers of dementia sufferers as they cope with the uncertainly of their loved ones' futures. Her counsel ranges from the very pragmatic, to the humorous, to the "what not to do," as were all learned through her own firsthand experience as caregiver to her mother.
With a tone of all encompassing love, advice on key practical preparation, and a candid look at the progression of emotions and physical changes that will be taking place, Ms. Kanzler leads the reader along the journey from her mother's diagnosis to her ultimate passing. She speaks in a friendly, kind, gentle way that draws the reader/caregiver into a bond of sympathy...one caregiver to another. It is practical, not clinical, while always acknowledging the dignity of the patient and the needs of the caregiver.
This author also inserts interesting commentary as would have been from the patient's perspective...giving her mother and those with dementia a voice back to those giving care.
The journey through dementia as described in this helpful resource was never sugarcoated, but was presented from the perspective that there is still a lot of life and love to be lived and shared along the way and how caregivers can best navigate this uncertain territory to the best possible benefit of all.