Download or read book Life With Big Al Early Alzheimer s a Caregivers Diary written by Judy Seegmiller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life With BIG AL is a story about how one family copes having their husband, father, and grandfather diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 52. It is a story of struggle, faith, laughter, sadness, joy, and above all, much love. Craig was a bright, energetic, very athletic individual who had always taken perfect care of his body. He ran 10-15 miles per day, ran a small retail specialty store by himself, and took care of his wife recovering from cancer and kidney failure. It was because of all the things he did that no one paid too much attention when he did something out of the ordinary; he had so much stress in his life. It wasn't until his wife, Judy, got well and studied that she knew. And, life With BIG AL began...
Download or read book Life with Big Al written by Judy Seegmiller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life with Big Al Early Alzheimer s written by Judy Seegmiller and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why settle for plain floors when you can turn them into decorative accents that add as much to the beauty of your home as the furniture or window treatments? Products such as acrylic varnishes that resist yellowing make it easier than ever to achieve great results using a variety of time-honoured techniques.
Download or read book Journal of an Alzheimer s Caregiver written by Winifred E. Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first hand account of what it is like to have a loved on develop Alzheimer's. With the help from my journal I will roll back the years to when I first observed some subtle changes that would eventually change my life and my husband's. Where do you turn when youfeel your life is suddenly shut half down? Who do you turn to hen you have decisions to be made? What happens to your life as you become a caregiver. These symptoms of Alzheimer's range over six years and I believe that other spouses who are in the same position will want to know that they are not alone. Also some people may be wondering iftheir loved one is a candidate for Alzheimer's. Hopefully this will help them.
Download or read book The Alzheimer S Diary written by Joan Sutton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One who Forgets and One who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease. In her memoir, author Joan Sutton narrates a moving account of her years as caregiver to her husband, noting that Alzheimers is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the currency of the heart. A member of the board of overseers of The Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation, she stresses the need to develop more effective treatment for the five million Americans currently diagnosed with this incurable disease, pointing out that for every patient there is a large circle of others also affected. Sutton offers practical advice for the care of the caregiver and the patient, and shares the pain that came as she watched pieces of her husbands self disappear. Following his death, after what Nancy Reagan described as the long goodbye, she writes candidly about coping with her new status as a widow and the aching loneliness of the heart that is the price paid for having known a great love. 100% of the authors royalties (20 to 40% of the purchase price) will benefit the Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation/Canada. Cover design by John R. Lewis
Download or read book DEMENTIA DIARY A Care Giver s Journal written by Robert Tell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HARD COVER EDITION------WHAT'S IT LIKE to be the only son of a widowed mother who is rapidly sinking into the opaque fog of dementia, and who lives alone half a continent away? ROBERT TELL tells this tale with compassion and humor. DEMENTIA DIARY reads like fiction and covers the fifteen year period from his father's shocking death in a department store to his mother's 92nd birthday. It is meant to be a portable support group. If you have watched helplessly as your parent, spouse or friend's identity disappeared into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), this heart-wrenching memoir will touch you deeply
Download or read book Diary of a Caregiver written by Rex T. Young and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, my wife of over fifty-eight years was diagnosed with dementia with Alzheimers symptoms. My caregiving responsibilities began before that time and continued until her death in January 2018. She was provided care in her own home. As time went by, the caregiver duties became more and more demanding. It was truly twenty-four hours each day and seven days each week. My sweetheart was referred to the hospice program as a patient beginning in 2013 with a life expectancy of six months or less. At the time of her passing, she had been a hospice patient for four years, eleven months, and five days. The Diary of a Caregiver begins with her entry into the hospice program and continues until her death. Caregiving can be very frustrating at times as one never knows what to expect or when to expect it. The Diary of a Caregiver identifies many of the problems and frustrations associated with care of a dementia patient. It also identifies different techniques and solutions to some of those problems. It should be of interest to anyone who is involved in caregiving, especially those who are just beginning.
Download or read book Diary of an Alzheimer s Caregiver written by Robert Hershberger and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year shy of her fiftieth wedding anniversary, Dee Hershberger was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Her husband, Bob, serving as her primary caregiver, kept a journal the following four and a half years. Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver provides an unflinchingly honest and heartbreaking account of what the couple went through. During the first two and a half years, Dee gradually lost short-term memory but maintained most physical and social abilities. Over the last two years she lost these abilities, most words, and long-term memory. She also became incontinent, suffered from undetected illnesses, and experienced psychotic episodes and uncontrollable, violent behavior. This is a brutally raw look at what it is like to lose a loved one to Alzheimer’s, including what the disease does to the patient and the effects it has on loved ones and caregivers. This personal view into caring for a spouse with Alzheimer’s will help readers understand the physical, emotional, and financial consequences of the disease, as well as provide support, advice, and hope to anyone in the same situation.
Download or read book Alzheimer S Through Tears and Laughter written by Edwina Marino and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there is a disease afflicting many people and arousing fear in those whose ages can start as young as forty years, and moving on through the sixties, seventy and eighty year old groups. It is known as Alzheimers Disease. This book is about sharing this experience with my sister-in-law who came down with this disease in her later years. She was eighty-four at the time and lived to be ninety four years old. I was encouraged to take notes and write about this by a doctor who told me I would be in a position to see its development every day for as long as she remained with me. He said, Take lots of notes. You will be able to observe so much more than I, because I dont spend that much time with a patient, and you will be with her day and night and observe the changes as they happen and what triggers her behavior. Good Luck! With that I started out on my ten year trip through the ups and downs, the good days and bad days of Alzheimers disease. Our days were laced with pain and humor, but I was determined to see it through, laughing a little and crying a lot, hoping the scenery would change, but finally surrendering to this fate that had come upon us. Our mantra became Lets laugh because if we dont we shall most certainly cry! I chose to care for her because I wanted her to be surrounded by love, music and laughter, in a place where we could laugh with her and cry with her and never be alone. Im glad I did.
Download or read book Diary of a Caregiver s Hell written by Just Joyce and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Caregiver's Hell By: Just Joyce At the age of 3-1/2, Joyce became a foster child to Ethel and Blair Breitigam. They raised her on their Pennsylvania farm to adulthood. Little did Ethel and Blair know how their decision would not only change the rest of Joyce’s life, but have an impact on who would be there for them at the closing time of their lives. Ethel and Blair experienced 17+ years of progression through debilitating illnesses, frailty of body, becoming invalids, along with both of them having Alzheimer’s. Although these years seem to have been taken from Joyce, it has also been a selfless giving by Joyce to this man and woman she came to call Mom and Dad. With her real-world, down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is attitude, just maybe Joyce can help one or two caregivers out there who are finding their situation hard to deal with.
Download or read book My Life Rearranged written by Susan G. Miller and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pssst ...is your life being rearranged? You are not alone. Alzheimer’s and dementia will turn your life inside out and upside down. In fact, there are many days you won’t know if you are coming or going. Susan Miller knows those days. Her husband was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer’s. She became the long distance caregiver for her father’s medical issues, followed by her mother’s diagnosis of dementia and then a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s for her mother-in-law. After decades of caregiving and years of widowhood, Susan met a wonderful widower, only to discover signs of dementia. My Life Rearranged gives voice to what many caregivers think, but are reluctant to admit.You will discover: •The issues of love, loss, responsibility, duty, and self-preservation while navigating the stages of the disease. •What it’s like to struggle with a disease that strikes terror in people’s hearts and offers ways to come through intact. •How to lessen the isolation and loneliness of caregiving, and bring honest insight into the life of a caregiver. Imagine coming home from the store and layingyour package down, only to find it gone thirty minutes later, nowhere to be found. Imagine looking for your favorite cereal in the morning, not finding it anywhere, and only later when you go to do a load of wash, do you find it. Imagine living with your spouse of many years, only to awaken one day and find he has turned into a child. Imagine thinking you are living in a house of cards, or that you are imagining it all, or perhaps it’s just a dream and you’ll soon awaken, but it’s not and you don’t. Imagine repeating this scenario over and overagain. My Life Rearranged will tug at your heart, touch your soul, inspire you, and help you believe in your capabilities.
Download or read book Diary of an Alzheimer s Caregiver written by Robert Hershberger and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year shy of her fiftieth wedding anniversary, Dee Hershberger was diagnosed with Alzheimer?s disease. Her husband, Bob, serving as her primary caregiver, kept a journal the following four and a half years. Diary of an Alzheimer?s Caregiver provides an unflinchingly honest and heartbreaking account of what the couple went through. During the first two and a half years, Dee gradually lost short-term memory but maintained most physical and social abilities. Over the last two years she lost these abilities, most words, and long-term memory. She also became incontinent, suffered from undetected illnesses, and experienced psychotic episodes and uncontrollable, violent behavior. This is a brutally raw look at what it is like to lose a loved one to Alzheimer?s, including what the disease does to the patient and the effects it has on loved ones and caregivers. This personal view into caring for a spouse with Alzheimer?s will help readers understand the physical, emotional, and financial consequences of the disease, as well as provide support, advice, and hope to anyone in the same situation.
Download or read book Caregiver Journal written by Caregiver Self-Care Books and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the National Institute on Aging, nearly 15 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult. And it is not uncommon for caregivers to experience many different emotions, both positive and negative, associated with their caregiving role. In fact, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, frustrated, and exhausted are just a few of the many common feelings experienced by caregivers. You are alone! There is a popular quote that states that you cannot pour from an empty cup. It is only when your cup is full or overflowing that you have something to offer others. That is why taking care of yourself should be a top priority. Journaling is a great way to add some self-care into each day and provides you with a the opportunity to reflect on your life. In fact, research shows that writing down your thoughts and feelings on a regular basis is linked to improved mental and physical health! Included in this journal: 150 pages for self-reflection One day per page Reflective Prompts regarding the caregiver's day, self-care routine, goals, improvement areas This journal makes a excellent gift for caregivers of those with impairments such chronic illnesses, dementia, Alzheimer's, disability, disease, old age, or mental health issues. EXTERIOR: Cover: High quality softcover with a matte finish. Binding: Secure professional trade paperback binding, i.e. it's built to last; pages won't fall out after a few months of use. Dimensions: 7" x 10".
Download or read book The Caregiver s Journal written by Kim Chernecky and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no doubt that being a caregiver is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your life. But despite the challenges, if given a choice, most caregivers wouldn't trade it for the world. With so much to do day in and day out, such as managing medication, meal preparation, help with bathing and toileting, housekeeping, shopping, errands, and trips to doctors, it's easy to let precious time slip away. But when you are caring for an aging loved one, time is the most precious gift we have. This journal was created to make it easy to organize your loved-one's important medical and caregiving information to make sure all of their daily needs are being taken care of, while still making time to connect a top priority. With daily prompts to remind us to stop and experience the joy of time spent with our loved one, we can forever remember those precious moments, long after they have passed.There will come a day when our role of caregiver comes to an end. My hope is that you will use this journal to record the tiny details of your days together; memories you can treasure for years to come, to look back on these caregiving days and years, not as a time of stress and struggle, but as one of shared love and precious moments. This journal is a must-have for any caregiver!Filled with daily inspirational quotes, each journal is structured in an easy-to-organize, customizable format that allows you to record THREE MONTHS of:* Daily Journal Entries * Pertinent Medical Information* Important Medication Information* Personal Care Needs* Dietary Restrictions* Emergency Contact Information* Medical Provider Contact Information* Month-at-a-Glance Calendars for Appointments* Caregiver Weekly Schedules...all in one easy-to-use, grab and go book!Also Included is a RESOURCE SECTION where you can find helpful resources across the United States for your loved one, such as Alzheimer's and Dementia services, Caregiver Support Groups, Social Security Assistance, and much more. Whether for yourself or a gift for a caregiver you love, when it comes to providing comprehensive, compassionate care, this journal is a tool you won't want to live without!
Download or read book The Caregiver written by Aaron Alterra and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life with alzheimer's.
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Download or read book Dementia Caregiver Journal written by Paige Cooper Rn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Caregiver's Diary To Write Medical Tracking Information in. This is a 6X9 101 Page Prompted Fill In Organizer for Those Caring For Seniors, Dealing With Dementia or Just At Home Caregivers. Makes A Great Gift for Caregiving Activities of Daily Living. Caregiving Journal Gift **Activity and Caregiving Notes **Toilet Schedule **Appointments Gift For Men Gift For Moms Elder Care Diary Dementia Care Alzheimers Caregiver Support Awareness Caregiving Support Diary To Write Important Information In.
