Family Dementia

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the early stages to late-stage disease.

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.

Dementia is a cruel disease, and neither this book nor any other make it all better. What this book aims to do, however, is show you that you can live with dementia and that there is life after a diagnosis. While dementia will steal a lot of the elements of your life, it can still leave you with much to be grateful for. Its progress can be delayed. And, ultimately, you and your loved ones can learn how to cope with it.

Rooted in both professional experience and personal empathy, Holistic Dementia Caregiving empowers caregivers to build deeper connections, manage difficult behaviors, and preserve dignity through every stage of dementia.

Someone in the world develops dementia every 3 seconds! Even in my own professional career as an RN working full time for 45 years, it was a huge education for me when my own mother was diagnosed with Vascular dementia. I am sharing what I have learned in hopes of helping others. Why knowledge is power Discover what Alzheimer's and other dementias are Secrets of diagnosis and roles of healthcare team Recognize stages of dementia and disease process Safety safeguards and proactive efforts Financial concerns and support connections Secrets to improve quality of life Latest treatments ...

Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs. Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition includes new information.

The Compassionate Guide to Dementia for Caregivers Proven Strategies and Heartfelt Tips to Care for Loved Ones at Home or Away. Manage Memory Loss & Challenging Behaviors to Enhance Your and Your Love One's Quality of Life By Enlightened Insights INK Dementia touches almost everyone's lives, bringing profound changes that can be both heartbreaking and challenging. You may feel lost and overwhelmed as you face the emotional upheaval of watching cherished memories fade and behavior shifts in someone you love. Do you feel the heartache of seeing your loved one struggle with memory lapses? Are ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Two of America’s most revered ancient nutrition experts combine forces to give you a holistic plan for creating lasting health and well-being. In this breakthrough book, New York Times bestselling authors and nutrition experts Jordan Rubin and Dr. Josh Axe...

Tabitha Knicely is overwhelmed with sorrow and exhaustion caring for her beloved great-aunt, whose dementia is getting worse. When her neighbor Marcus Whittington accuses Tabitha of elder neglect, he doesn't realize how his threats to have Aunt Tweet taken away add to Tabitha's pain. Then Marcus gets to know the exuberant elderly lady and sees up close how hard Tabitha is fighting to keep everything together. Tabitha finds herself leaning on Marcus more and more. And he's becoming more than happy to share her burdens.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 “With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won’t just want to underline them, you will...

Lewy Body Blues: A Family’s Roller Coaster Experience with Lewy Body Dementia is an insider’s perspective on how one family adapted and learned to cope with this incredibly challenging and progressively debilitating disease. Based on a personal journey and filled with facts and strategies for handling Lewy Body Dementia, this book is essential listening for anyone desiring to learn more about this little-known brain disorder.

Caring for a loved one with dementia is one of the greatest challenges one might face in life. This book brings an overview of what family caregivers must know to identify and manage dementia symptoms, to make the best plans for future care, and avoid costly mistakes as dementia progresses. Pragmatic, concise, and straight to the point, yet with poignant anecdotes and compassionate wisdom, Ahead of Dementia is a must-listen for those who want to know how best to help their loved ones while also caring for themselves

Caring for a loved one with dementia comes with unique challenges sometimes at your own expense. You couldn't shake off the feeling any longer. You convince your loved one to get checked after showing multiple signs and symptoms. And as their doctor explains the results, the world around you slows down. Your feelings were correct - your loved one has dementia. And then reality hits: No one in your family has caregiving experience.

The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War...

There are an estimated 6.5 million people in the US who suffer from dementia—a statistic that is only anticipated to increase as time goes on. As their condition worsens, patients become increasingly unable to care for themselves and have to rely on someone else, usually a loved one, to look after them.

From America’s Gerontologist, a practical guide that offers a radical and optimistic approach to longevity. Dr. Kerry Burnight—known to her many followers as "Dr. Kerry"—is sparking a revolution to make older better. Fed up with the fear driven, anti-aging hysteria, hundreds of thousands...

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

A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back—and in moving us forward—for fans of The Collected Regrets of Clover and Maame. This program is read by Barrie Kreinik, winner of multiple Audie and Earphones awards. Call it inertia. Call it a...

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.

IT ALL BEGAN IN THE YEAR 1912... Over seventy years ago, a five-year-old girl named Mary Bentley was mistakenly left behind on the docks of an English harbor whilst her family set sail to America for a better life... After being missing for over fourteen years, Mary, now a nineteen-year-old woman, was quite miraculously found by her mum in a small, local library in Lansbury, England... PRESENT DAY Many years later, at the age of seventy-five, it is time to embrace the highly emotional story of the woman she ultimately became. At the same time, she revisits her life's journey and also shares...