Dementia Parents

If you are facing the unique challenges of caring for a parent with dementia, you are not alone. What do you do when your loved one so plainly needs assistance, but is confused, angry, or resistant to your help? Where can you find the vital information you need, when you need it? Journalist Thomas Harrison and leading geriatric psychiatrist Brent Forester show that you don’t have to be a medical expert to be a good care provider in this authoritative guide. They explain the basics of dementia and offer effective strategies for coping with the medical, emotional, and financial toll.

How To Deal With a Parent With Dementia. A Practical Guide to Communicate with Compassion, Manage Challenging Behaviors, Reduce Caregiver Burnout, Make Difficult Decisions with Confidence, and Care for Your Parent Without Losing Yourself. If you're searching for real answers on how to deal with a parent with dementia, you already know the hardest part isn't the diagnosis — it's every day after it. The repeated questions. The accusations that come out of nowhere. The guilt when you lose your patience. The exhaustion no one warned you about. This book was written for exactly this moment. ...

The Dementia Caregiver’s Survival Guide is here to offer a lifeline to caregivers, providing practical advice and emotional support to help you cope with the complexities of dementia care. This survival guide offers a road map, empowering caregivers to understand the disease, manage difficult symptoms, and cope with financial challenges, patient aggression, depression, and much more.

The perfect companion for family caregivers—frank talk, wise words, real-life tools “We’re family caregivers, you and I” is how this remarkable book begins. Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this emotional survival guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. Today’s longer lives mean longer caregiving. If you’re caring for a parent, spouse, or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups ...

This comprehensive guide will provide you with the essential knowledge and practical tools you need to become an effective caregiver. We'll cover everything from understanding the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease to learning how family members can actually get paid for providing care. Most importantly, this book will help you understand that caregiving is a legitimate profession that deserves recognition, compensation, and proper training. You're not just "helping out"—you're providing essential healthcare services that make a real difference in someone's life.

Alzheimer’s doesn’t arrive all at once. It unfolds — slowly, quietly, and in stages. In The 7 Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease: Walking Betty Home, Joshua Pettit shares both a clear explanation of each stage of Alzheimer’s and the deeply personal lessons he learned while caring for his mother for eleven years. This is more than a medical overview. It is a real-world guide from a son who walked through every phase — from the first subtle memory lapses to full-time caregiving and final goodbyes. Inside, you’ll find: A simple breakdown of all seven stages of Alzheimer’s What’s ...

Some goodbyes happen all at once. This one takes years. If you are caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease — a parent, a spouse, a sibling, a beloved aunt — you already know that this goodbye is unlike any other. The person you love is still here, and also, in so many ways, already gone. You are grieving someone who is still in the room. You are exhausted in a way that sleep cannot fix. And you are doing one of the hardest things a human being can do, often with very little guidance and even less support. This book was written for you. Written by Nati Carrillo, a nurse practitioner ...

The unforgettable, sharply funny dementia novel readers are calling “heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure.” “Maggie is a masterpiece of chaos.” "Tom broke my heart, then made me laugh out loud.” “A beautifully honest story.” It starts, as these things often do, with small slips. A misplaced remote. A teapot given away to a postman. A trolley “adopted” from Tesco Express. But Maggie Harris has never done anything by halves - so her dementia arrives with full-blown mayhem: five-hour bus trips to places she doesn’t recognise, late-night wanderings, supermarket ...

What you will find in this 54-page interactive guidebook are Dr. Macie Smith's unique responses to typical questions dementia caregivers find themselves asking over and over again. As a Licensed Gerontology Social Worker, Dr. Smith responds to questions that range from the treatment of Alzheimer's to getting your loved one to drink water. You'll be happy to know that Dr. Smith's approach to responding to caregivers' questions is through 19 years of real world experiences both personally and professionally. It's real talk for real people with real concerns-Because more than 15 million ...

Eliminate the fear of dementia and unlock mental clarity for the golden years, even if you've struggled with cognitive decline for years. Are you worried about losing your independence to dementia as the years go by? Have you been overwhelmed by conflicting information that leaves you confused and anxious? Or maybe you're facing early cognitive symptoms and urgently need solutions that work? You are not alone. Many seniors share your fears and concerns, but the promise of a sharper, healthier mind is within reach. Whether you're navigating through the confusion surrounding dementia ...

Where do you turn when your loved one is diagnosed with dementia? Many people do not know. There is either too much information or not enough information available. Until now! The information within this book provides guidance on what to do before the diagnosis when you suspect that something is happening, at diagnosis, and after the diagnosis. Additionally, information is provided on what is normal aging memory loss and what is considered dementia, when to consider in-home care or out-of-home care, strategies on paying for long-term care, and ways to address behavioral concerns. As a ...

This book offers hope and direction to bring these out of confusing darkness and into the light of wisdom. The core message of this essential book is that you will discover an abundance of ways to improve the lives of caregivers and those with dementia

At first, Ken Abraham wrote off his mother’s changes in behavior as quirks that just come with old age. There was memory loss, physical decline, hygiene issues, paranoia, and uncharacteristic attitudes. He soon realized that dementia had changed her life - and his family’s - forever. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer’s disease. That’s one in eight older Americans. More than likely, that figure includes someone you know and love.

Updated September, 2025! You never imagined you'd be the one making life-and-death decisions for your mom or dad. Now what? When Alzheimer’s or dementia strikes someone you love, it can feel like you're suddenly in charge of everything—without a roadmap. This real-world dementia survival guide answers with detailed and practical advice the exact questions every caregiver ends up facing: What if Mom refuses to leave her home, even when it’s no longer safe? When do I take away Dad's car keys—or checkbook? Should I correct her when she says things that are just plain false? What do I ...

Grieving the Living is a heartfelt guide for caregivers and families navigating the unique pain of dementia-related grief. Unlike other forms of loss, dementia brings a complicated mixture of love, sorrow, and resilience, a journey often described as grieving the living. In this compassionate book, you’ll discover clear explanations, real-life insights, and practical tools to help you understand and cope with the emotional rollercoaster of dementia caregiving. From the first signs of memory loss to the challenges of anticipatory grief and ambiguous loss, this guide provides the comfort of...

The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a pause-resisting memoir that offers insight into the "altering world of the dementia mind". During that time Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within - and sometimes yielded an almost Zen-like poetry. She includes selections from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as diary entries.

You probably did not buy this book on a calm afternoon. Most people who buy this book bought it within forty-eight hours of a phone call. A fall. A diagnosis. A confused neighbor saying something is not right. A bill that should not exist. A sibling text at 11pm that started with "we need to talk." This book is written for that moment, for the adult child who has just realized, possibly for the first time, that no one is coming to handle this. The hospital social worker means well and is leaving at five. The doctor has eleven minutes. Your sibling is in another time zone and "supports ...

A geriatrician whose perspective on his specialty changed when his own father was diagnosed with dementia provides clear, calm questions to ask and tasks to tackle—as well as what not to worry about—from the first moments of concern. When Nate Chin’s father, also a doctor, began to feel...

The new edition of Creating Moments of Joy is filled with more practical advice sprinkled with hope, encouragement, new stories, and generous helpings of humor. In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves.

If you’re caring for a parent with dementia, you know how quickly life can shift. One moment you’re having breakfast together, and the next, you’re explaining the same thing for the fifth time, while trying not to break down. Caring for someone with dementia is not just a task. It’s a deeply emotional, often exhausting role filled with love, confusion, grief, and unspoken guilt. Yet, you show up… again and again. Why? Because you love them. But who’s showing up for you?