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Summary: Absolute must for anyone dealing with Alzheimer's Disease
Review: A very informative book written without the medicinal coldness of medical terminology. A truly real life journey of a beloved family member and the family through the anguish, confusion, sorrow, and most of all the challenges faced with the oncoming and changing stages of Alzheimer's Disease. As a spouse of an Alzheimer's victim, I wish this book had been available 6 years ago, It would have helped even more than it has today. The author has given us all a new insight and awareness to this disease and shines a new more hopeful light on how to deal with this terrible disease. Even Medical Professionals could learn something from this book this book is a precursor to the delema we will be facing in ten years when some 14,000,000 boomers will be on the Alzheimers journey.
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Summary: Absolute must for anyone dealing with Alzheimer's Disease
Review: A very informative book written without the medicinal coldness of medical terminology. A truly real life journey of a beloved family member and the family through the anguish, confusion, sorrow, and most of all the challenges faced with the oncoming and changing stages of Alzheimer's Disease. As a spouse of an Alzheimer's victim, I wish this book had been available 6 years ago, It would have helped even more than it has today. The author has given us all a new insight and awareness to this disease and shines a new more hopeful light on how to deal with this terrible disease. Even Medical Professionals could learn something from this book this book is a precursor to the delema we will be facing in ten years when some 14,000,000 boomers will be on the Alzheimers journey.
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Summary: Support & Hope for Families & Friends of Alzheimers Patients
Review: The Long Road Called Goodbye is a chronicle of the progress of Alzheimer's in the life of a elderly woman. I must admit I had a hard time putting the book down and read it in only two days. This book was invaluable to me, because my mother also has also been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. About five years ago I was certain something was wrong with my mother. When I tried to discuss it with my siblings they acted as if I was off my rocker! My siblings couldn't see it. How Alzheimer patients can put on a front at times and seem perfectly disease free is discussed in the book. Alzheimer’s feels like a journey into a black hole—a wide expanse of unknown, uncharted territory. This book sheds some light on what we can expect in the years to come, ways to help out, loving options for patient care, and ways to cope. It has also helped me identify where my mother is in the process at this time. This book gives hope and understanding. If you know anyone or any family suffering from this disease I recommend you read this book. The Long Road Called Goodbye is written in plain language (not medical jargon) and is a wonderful step in getting the disease out into the open, so it can be understood rather than just feared.
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Summary: Sharing the Road
Review: This book is full of real life; so enjoyable to read; the kind you do not want to put down until you are done--and I didn't. Then it leaves you with thinking and feeling about the very important things in life around us, like those we love and care for every day. I cried and I laughed throughout the entire book, and at the end I felt as though I had somehow shared part of the authors road with her for a brief time. She was so vulnerable with all that she walked through in her own personal experience with caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's. I really appreciated that about this book. The author did an outstanding job presenting the reality of Alzheimer's from a medical standpoint, as well as that of being a family member affected by the disease. Then she walks you through the role of being the actual caregiver. Wow! Being a health care professional myself, I felt the facts and new insights that were presented in this book were excellent. It is a great resource for those working with Alzheimer patients and for any person who has been called to the care of their own loved one with Alzheimer's. It was a beautiful illustration of laying one's own life down and all that entails. It is a challenge to those dealing with caring for their own ill loved one, as well a great source of encouragement! I highly recommend this book to health professionals dealing with Alzheimer's, and the friends and most of all, families, of those whose lives this tragic disease has struck. You will not regret the time devoted to this very meaningful book.
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Summary: An emotional and thoughtful look at caregiving
Review: This book looks at some of the hard decisions caregivers, esp. of Alzheimer's patients, "get" to make. How much social contact should a person with Alzheimer's have at various stages of the disease? What is "life support" for Alzheimer's patients? What type of care (nursing home, foster care, assisted living, live-in help) is best for someone battling dementia? And does a caregiver get through these decisions guilt-free? If you know anyone with Alzheimer's Disease, read this book. If you are a caregiver, it will help you make your own decisions; if you are a friend of a caregiver, it will help you support the caregiver; if you are a friend of the Alzheimer's patient, it will help you "find" your "lost" friend.
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Summary: The Long Road Called Goodbye
Review: This book really spoke to me. My mother is suffering from Alzheimer's much like the Author's did. I am several states away from my parents and I could relate to Charlotte's brother who didn't live near their mother. I have 2 sisters that help care for my parents but I had been having problems understanding the disease and my sister's words about what was going on with my mother. This book gave me insite to what my sister might be feeling as well as somethings my own mother might yet go through. I purchased the book for my sister and called her just to talk to her. That is something I hadn't done for a long time. I suggest this book to anyone that has a loved one with Alzheimers.
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Summary: The Long Road Called Goodbye
Review: This book really spoke to me. My mother is suffering from Alzheimer's much like the Author's did. I am several states away from my parents and I could relate to Charlotte's brother who didn't live near their mother. I have 2 sisters that help care for my parents but I had been having problems understanding the disease and my sister's words about what was going on with my mother. This book gave me insite to what my sister might be feeling as well as somethings my own mother might yet go through. I purchased the book for my sister and called her just to talk to her. That is something I hadn't done for a long time. I suggest this book to anyone that has a loved one with Alzheimers.
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