Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

One Daughter's Hopeful Story

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Previously published in Hardcover as Dancing With Rose One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer's facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.
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Schrijver
Kessler, Lauren
Titel
Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
Uitgever
Penguin Publishing Group
Jaar
2008
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
274
Gewicht
227 gr
EAN
9780143113683
Afmetingen
197 x 133 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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