Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story Paperback - 2008
by Kessler, Lauren
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A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, this work offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach, and offers a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.
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- Title Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story
- Author Kessler, Lauren
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2008
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0143113682I4N00
- ISBN 9780143113683 / 0143113682
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.36 x 0.58 in (20.42 x 13.61 x 1.47 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Alzheimer's disease - Patients - Care, Caregivers
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.196
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Summary
Previously published in HC 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.