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G.K. Hall large print nonfiction seriesJauhar, Sandeep
Summary: Almost six million Americans--about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five--have Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition--an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father's Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAUHAR, SANDEEP JAUBloom, Amy
Summary: "Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it dictate his life and instead asked himself: What makes life meaningful, and how do I want to live the rest of mine? His decision led them to learn about Dignitas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BLOOM BLOHutton, June
Summary: "A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HUTDwinell, Jane
Summary: What do you do when your reality slips away? If you're Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write. When Sky was diagnosed with "probable early stage Alzheimer's" at age 66, he was determined to live as fully with his new reality as possible. He researched dementia, talked about dementia, connected with other people with the disease, and, finally,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rootstock Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DWIJebelli, Joseph
Summary: A neuroscientist takes readers on a journey around the world and through history, from nineteenth-century Germany to present day India, to examine the science and scientists working to find a cure to Alzheimer's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 JEB1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Grinnan, Edward
Summary: "Enjoy the NEW inspirational memoir from Edward Grinnan, Guideposts’ Editor-in-Chief, as he reveals his deeply personal - and hopeful - journey of faith through his mother’s Alzheimer’s and his own fear of getting the disease. A blessing and encouraging read for anyone facing trials. Edward understands the fear and panic of memory loss and Alzheimer’s all too well. He watched Alzheimer’s take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guideposts 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRINNAN, EDWARD GRIDicke, Jim
Summary: Eight or so decades ago, Eilleen Webster was working a math problem on the blackboard of her Dayton, Ohio, classroom when an eraser bounced off a few feet to one side of her. The eraser had been launched by a classmate, Jim Dicke, who with characteristic directness had decided this would be a good way to gain the attention of the young woman standing at the front of the class. It was a hit or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orange Frazer Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 DICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DICKE DICJagger, Steph
Summary: "In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAGGER, STEPH JAGRozelle, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.831 ROZELGillies, Andrea.
Summary: 'Keeper' is a very humane and honest exploration of living with Alzheimer's, giving an illuminating account of the disease itself. Gillies tells about the time she and her family spent living with someone with dementia, in a big Victorian house in the far, far north of Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 GILAlterman, Sara Faith
Summary: "Sara was at the tender age of 12 when she found the skeleton in her prudish parents' closet: a series of novelty sex books crammed high up on a shelf in her childhood living room, all written by Sara's ordinary suburban dad, Ira. For decades the books were an unspoken secret in Sara's family until Ira developed early onset Alzheimer's disease...and announced he'd be reviving his novelty porn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALTERMAN, SARA FAITH ALTDeBaggio, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 DEBContents: Editor's preface / Jessica Bryan -- Introduction / Victor Molinari, Ph.D. -- The black hole / Bobbi Lurie -- Technical difficulty / Ronnie R. Brown -- Walks with my father / Elisavietta Ritchie -- Still here / Nancy Watts -- I know Dr. Alzheimer / Andrew N. Wilner, M.D., FACP -- Coming into this world / Richard T. Waller -- My Alzheimer's percussion band - unplugged version / Stephen J. Lyons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging BryanBayley, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURDICH, IRIS BAYDowns, Maggie
Summary: "Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWNS, MAGGIE DOWFriel McGowin, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 FRIHanstedt, Constance.
Summary: As a young girl in the Midwest, Constance Hanstedt was consumed by fear -- of her parents, especially her disapproving mother, Virginia; of social situations; and of people in general. Even as an adult she remained guarded around her mother, avoiding conflict at all costs. Still, when Virginia developed Alzheimer's, Hanstedt did what the perfect daughter she'd always struggled to be would do:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind HanstedtAmos, Carol B.
Summary: H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey equips Alzheimer’s caregivers with knowledge, tools, and advice for their difficult road ahead. The concepts are conveyed in an open, honest, and creative manner using original family email communications from Carol B. Amos’s own journey. Carol also introduces The Caregiving Principle™ : a simple approach that provides a deeper understanding of a person with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.97 AMOSummitt, Pat Head
Summary: Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author, tells for the first time her story of victory and resilience, as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013