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Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story

Kessler, Lauren

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAging & Elder CareAlzheimer's & Dementia

ISBN10: 0143113682
ISBN13: 9780143113683
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
An excellent book...an emotional and ruminative anchor...She leaves her readers with hope.-- San Francisco Chronicle

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.

Previously published as Dancing With Rose.

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