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"How to Prevent Dementia begins with the principle that the more we know about dementia, the easier it is to prevent or delay it. A better foundation of knowledge also helps people to understand and interact thoughtfully with family members and other loved ones who may have Alzheimer's and other dementias. Dr. Restak examines the basic thinking of normal everyday people and progresses to people with thinking disorders. In understanding that dementias...
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"While growing older is inevitable, many of the troubles we associate with aging--including dementia, disability, and an increased dependence on others--are not. The choices we make now can help us to maintain a sharp mind, our vitality, and our independence as we age. Filled with simple, everyday actions we can take to avoid disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late onset Alzheimer's, The Aging Brain is an easy-to-use guide to maintaining...
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"In a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging, an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared. Convinced Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, Maud's search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. As this singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving present, the clues she discovers seem to...
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Your hands-on guide to dealing with dementia within the UK healthcare system If a loved one has recently been diagnosed with dementia, Dementia For Dummies, UK Edition provides trusted, no-nonsense guidance on what this may mean for you and your family. You'll get an understanding of the symptoms of dementia, make sense of the stages of the illness and grasp the differences between the various types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and vascular...
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4th Grade Rocks
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
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"While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina Carol is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing...
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Nadia Cara is in Florence, Italy with her family because her professor father is researching the 1966 flood, but Nadia herself is in trouble--she has turned into a kleptomaniac and she feels detached from everything, except for an elusive Italian boy whom no one but herself has seen.
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"Freddy leads a life of little responsibility, following his own meandering path. His only real attachment is to his memory-challenged grandmother, whose nursing home he regularly visits. His far-flung sisters may belittle his artistic ambitions, and his grandmother only occasionally knows who he is, but he can go with the flow. When another nursing home resident is murdered, though, Freddy panics. He can't take care of his grandmother alone, and...
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The unflinching and hopeful story of one woman's journey into family caregiving, and a vivid overview of the challenges of Alzheimer's care. With the passion of a committed daughter and the fervor of a tireless reporter, Martha Stettinius weaves this compelling story of caregiving for her demented mother with a broad exploration of the causes of Alzheimer's disease, means of treating it, and hopes for preventing it. She shares the lessons she's learned...
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"The majority of the global population have left the cities and towns to become diggers and work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are part of a dwindling population that survives in the margins of a new society, struggling to construct a meaningful future for themselves. Miranda travels alone across what had once been the American West. After taking care of, and then...
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"Widower Mitch Jensen is at a loss with how to handle his mother's odd, forgetful behaviors, as well as his daughter's sudden return home and unexpected life choices. Little does he know Grandma June has long been keeping a secret about her past-but if she doesn't tell the truth about it someone she loves will suffer, and the lives of three generations will never be the same"--
12) The memory book
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When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.
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This third edition of Alzheimer's Early Stages offers the 5 million individuals diagnosed with the disease and their loved ones and caretakers new research findings, new approaches to treatment, and new information on the three key areas of Alzheimer's disease: medical aspects, day-to-day care, and care for the caretaker. Author Daniel Kuhn has been a social worker and educator focused on enhancing the well-being of people with Alzheimer's disease...
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A lo largo de la experiencia de Jennifer L. Jiménez Ruiz como Trabajadora Social Clínico de un Hospicio (Servicio en el Hogar a pacientes en etapa terminal) en Puerto Rico, conoció muchas familias de pacientes con Alzheimer con diferentes problemáticas sociales, pero con el factor común de desconocimiento en el manejo de un paciente encamado. Según la experiencia adquirida en cada caso trabajado y las discusiones de casos con enfermeras y médicos,...
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Caregivers finally have a book that speaks directly about managing behaviors such as rummaging, anxiety, decreased communication, confusion, apathy, repetitive questioning, paranoia, aggression, memory loss and declining mobility. What do you do when mother is digging in the trash trying to organize what she finds? What do you do when grandpa has not changed his clothes for two weeks? What do you do when dad is becoming agitated and yells at you for...
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As we move through life many of us find ourselves needing to help a family member or friend with a medical condition. If the condition is temporary, our need to help is temporary. However, chronic conditions such as Alzheimer's and other dementias require longer-term, possibly ever-increasing assistance. Problems with thinking and memory lead to new, different, and often challenging behaviors. In addition, caring for someone with Alzheimer's often...
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From the groundbreaking series written specifically for family caregivers, "Activities for the Family Caregiver - Frontotemporal Dementia / Frontal Lobe Dementia / Pick's Disease: How to Engage / How to Live" offers information and insight to enhance quality of life through improved social interactions as well as activities of daily living, safety and general caregiver information. Learn new communications and activities strategies to improve time...
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Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer's Unit is a collection of narratives set in a nursing home, stories for adults seeking redeeming truth beneath terrible suffering. Social Work Professor Emeritus Howard Goldstein praised it by saying, "This collection should be read and treasured by the caregiver, the next-of-kin, the professional and the educator - anyone who wishes to understand the inner world and mind of the Alzheimer's patient. Susa Silvermarie,...
19) Mike & Me
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More than three years in the making, this book changes everything for Alzheimer's couples and caregivers. When her husband Mike was, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Rosalys Peel made a deal with him. Together, they vowed that they would manage Alzheimer's in their own home and go right on living life as normally as possible for as long as possible. Over the next ten years, they found new ways to defy and surpass virtually all the typical Alzheimer's statistics....
20) Dog Breeds
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This E-book is one in a series of easy-to-read picture books for adults with dementia. In order to maintain the dignity of your loved one, the series name has been removed from all our E-books so it doesn't show up in the file name on your E-reader. Our mandate is to provide books for adults living with dementia or another life challenge, something they can enjoy, while keeping their dignity intact by making no mention of words such as dementia, Alzheimer's...
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