Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's – A Caregiver's Unflinching Battle with Disease and the Healthcare System - Couverture souple

Comer, Meryl

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ISBN 10 : 0062130854 ISBN 13 : 9780062130853

Editeur : HarperOne, 2015

Synopsis

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.

When Meryl Comer’s husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 1996, she watched as the man who headed hematology and oncology research at the National Institutes of Health started to misplace important documents and forget clinical details that had once been cataloged encyclopedically in his mind. With harrowing honesty, she brings readers face to face with this devastating condition and its effects on its victims and those who care for them. Detailing the daily realities and overwhelming responsibilities of caregiving, Comer sheds intensive light on this national health crisis, using her personal experiences—the mistakes and the breakthroughs—to put a face to a misunderstood disease, while revealing the facts everyone needs to know.

Pragmatic and relentless, Meryl has dedicated herself to fighting Alzheimer’s and raising public awareness. “Nothing I do is really about me; it’s all about making sure no one ends up like me,” she writes. Deeply personal and illuminating, Slow Dancing With a Stranger offers insight and guidance for navigating Alzheimer’s challenges. It is also an urgent call to action for intensive research and a warning that we must prepare for the future, instead of being controlled by a disease and a healthcare system unable to fight it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Meryl Comer is an Emmy award–winning reporter, veteran TV producer, and business talk show host. She is president and CEO of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative, which promotes early diagnosis, innovation, and national public service campaigns like Geoffrey Beene's Rock Stars of Science™ and the 2009 HBO Alzheimer's Project. A co-founder of WomenAgainstAlzheimer's, she is a recipient of the 2005 Shriver Profi les in Dignity Award and the 2007 Proxmire Award. Comer has been the subject of prime time news stories by ABC's Nightline and the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From New York Times bestselling author, Emmy award–winning broadcast journalist, and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer comes a profoundly intimate account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, one of today’s most pressing—and least understood—health epidemics.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from Slow Dancing with a Stranger will support Alzheimer’s research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperOne
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0062130854
• ISBN 13: 9780062130853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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