Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer’s: An Emotional Journey
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Highly Recommended: Video Librarian Recommended: Booklist This dynamic program offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential-and difficult. Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's is divided into 12 segments and features interviews with experts and the insights of a real Alzheimer's support group. Topics discussed include: • Caring for one who doesn't remember your name • Grieving the losses of their life, and yours • When an unexpected side of your loved one comes out • When it feels like your love no longer helps • Struggling with denial • Hungering for simple recognition • Feelings of failure, guilt, frustration and anger • How to care for you- physically, emotionally, spiritually- while you care for someone else • Finding support – on the Web, through the telephone, or in person • Allowing someone else to care for your loved one • Times when laughter, singing, and foolishness are entirely appropriate! • Learning to accept the person that s/he is now – there is no going back • The courage and sacrifice of an Alzheimer's caregiver
