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Grandfather's story cloth
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Linda Gerdner |
Ten-year-old Chersheng helps his beloved grandfather cope with his failing memory, brought on by Alzheimer's disease, by showing him the story quilt Grandfather made after fleeing his homeland, Laos,… |
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Once a spy
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Keith Thomson |
Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who's wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. … |
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Rudy's memory walk
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Gloria Velásquez |
As high school senior Rudy adjusts his attitudes toward the elderly when his senile grandmother has to move in with his family, his girlfriend encourages him to talk with a friend's mother who has si… |
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A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease
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Patricia Callone |
An estimated 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. That number continues to grow - by 2050 the number of individuals with Alzheimer's could range from 11.3 million to 16 million. Alzheimer's … |
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When language breaks down
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Elissa D. Asp |
"Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to… |
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Mastering the Complexities of Women's Healthcare
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Gilbert Mertens |
This book gives us an unexpected, complete picture of the history, the present and the future of women's healthcare.
Know the answers to questions such as: What do declining oestrogen levels mean f… |
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Buffalo lockjaw
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Greg Ames |
James Fitzroy travels home to Buffalo for the Thanksgiving holiday?and to assist his mother in committing suicide. Ellen, only 56 and a nurse, author, and patients-rights activist, has Alzheimer?s. S… |
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Alzheimer's disease
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Elaine Landau |
Examines the possible causes, social effects, and personal trials of this disease. |
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Alzheimer disease sourcebook
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Amy L. Sutton |
"Provides basic consumer health information about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer disease and other dementias, along with tips for coping with memory loss and related complications an… |
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Future opportunities to leverage the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
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Theresa M. Wizemann,Bruce M. Altevogt,Diana E. Pankevich |
"Nearly 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, and 26.6 million people are affected worldwide. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a public-private partnership… |
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The sweetness of forgetting
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Kristin Harmel |
In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the… |
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Faith Bass Darling's last garage sale
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Lynda Rutledge |
Faith Bass Darling, the richest woman in Bass, Texas, and a twenty-year recluse, holds a garage sale on the last day of the millennium, sparking curiosity and protectiveness throughout her Texas comm… |
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Rethinking Alzheimer's care
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Sam Fazio,Dorothy Seman,Jane Stansell |
"Rethinking Alzheimer's Care encourages a complete reframing of the Alzheimer's experience. With exploration of how to find opportunities in the disease instead of despair, the authors inspire care p… |
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Once upon a lie
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Maggie Barbieri |
"Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wi… |
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Beyond forgetting
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Holly J. Hughes |
This work is a literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer's disease, now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in people as young as f… |
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Choke
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Chuck Palahniuk |
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food… |
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Brain longevity
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Dharma Singh Khalsa |
This revolutionary (and fascinating) book explains how we can postpone the aging of our brains and instead develop extraordinary brain longevity, with memory, concentration, energy, and learning abil… |
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Aging together
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Susan H. McFadden |
"Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age -- roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will fo… |
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Phone
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Will Self |
The life of a psychiatrist affected by Alzheimer's intersects with the life of an emotionally isolated MI6 agent in unexpected ways. |
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The robber of memories
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Michael Jacobs |
"Magdalena, a river that courses through the heart of Columbia, connects a violent past with the country's uncertain present. British writer Michael Jacobs struggles to reconcile his love for the lan… |
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