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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Media darling and director of Memory and Healthy Aging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Zaldy Tan’s What to Remember When You Are Forgetting shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia for the recently diagnosed and their caregivers. What if a dementia diagnosis could be an...

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 ...

A compassionate and practical guide for families facing the beginning of a dementia journey. In Understanding the Early Stages of Dementia, experienced nurse and caregiver advocate Diane Carbo offers essential insight and real-world advice for navigating a life-changing diagnosis. Whether you’re a family member, care partner, or recently diagnosed individual, this book will help you prepare, plan, and care with confidence. You'll discover: How to recognize early signs and types of dementia What to expect after a diagnosis How to build routines and a safe, familiar environment ...

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.

A clear, current, science-based guide to dementia — for the worried, the recently diagnosed, and the families walking the road alongside them. When dementia arrives in a family, the questions start before the appointment is even over. What kind is it. How fast will it move. What is actually happening inside the brain. What can we do, and what can we not. Most families spend the next weeks searching for answers no one prepared them to find. The Long Goodbye is the book the author wishes he had been handed when his own family first heard the word. It is a single, accessible field guide to ...

Caring for someone with dementia can feel overwhelming, especially when you are suddenly responsible for decisions, safety, medications, daily care, and difficult behaviors you never expected to handle. Dementia Caregiving for Beginners is a practical, easy-to-follow guide for spouses, adult children, and family members caring for someone with dementia. Inside, you will learn how to: Understand dementia and what changes to expect Communicate more effectively and reduce arguments Handle anger, agitation, repetition, and difficult behaviors Manage bathing, dressing, toileting, eating, and ...

It's 2 a.m. and your mother is calling to ask where her car keys are — the keys you took last week, after the second time she got lost driving home. You're not failing her. You're grieving someone who is still alive. When the Keys Go is for the adult children — in their forties, fifties, sixties — caring for a parent whose independence is slipping one hard moment at a time: the stove left on, the checkbook that no longer balances, the move nobody wanted to make. It names what almost no one says out loud — that this is real grief, the kind with no funeral, for a parent who is here ...

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 ...

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?

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.

When a parent’s behavior changes, it rarely comes with a clear explanation. One day something feels off. A conversation doesn’t make sense. A reaction feels out of proportion. They forget something they shouldn’t. They resist help. They say things that aren’t true. And you’re left wondering: Is this normal aging… or something else? What am I supposed to do right now? This book gives you clear, practical answers when behavior changes and things start to feel uncertain. Inside this book, you’ll learn: How to recognize early warning signs of cognitive decline and behavioral ...