ALZHEIMER'S SURGERY: An Intimate Portrait - Couverture souple

Weiss, Betty

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1420857959 ISBN 13 : 9781420857955

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

Underlying this powerful and educational Alzheimer's book is an enduring love story lasting over half a century. The author discovers that getting relief for her husband's Alzheimer's is not easy; not every treatment works for everyone. But she finds a surgery, using the patient's own body, as safe as any for heart disease or cancer. Understanding it was neither a cure nor prevention, and seemingly bizarre, she had it for her husband anyway, resulting in dramatic reversals of many severe Alzheimer's symptoms. Most ensuing patients also improved. She details their life together, his progressing condition; research leading to her decision; references to easily access; startling Alzheimer's statistics; warning signs; and a check-list of what to do at the first suspicion of the illness.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Betty Weiss, author of the best-selling book "When the Doctor Says, Alzheimer's: Your Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's & Dementia", has helped countless families to better cope with this distressing and mysterious disease. Based on a decade of research and caring for her beloved husband, it offers easy to understand explanations and actions to implement, caregiver-to-caregiver, to help ease this life-altering experience. In her latest book, "Alzheimer's Surgery: An Intimate Portrait", she has moved from the caregiving side of Alzheimer's to the personal story of the more than ten years she and her husband lived with it. She brings it to life, exposing it for all to see, and hopefull, understand. The reader is lulled slowly into its first vague symptoms, only to be suddenly and quickly drawn into a page-turning true story surpassing fiction. Through all her research, too many doctors, ineffective meds, different treatments, tears and joys, the yo-yo rollercoaster ride of Alzheimer's that is impossible to get off, she vividly paints an intimate portrait of her husband, their marriage, Alzheimer's, and not incidentally, herself. Before writing her Alzheimer's books, Betty Weiss had numerous articles published in newspapers and magazines. Now, after her personal experience, she believes that almost everyone who has lived with Alzheimer's is forever changed, and that only other non-professional home caregivers who have lived it can fully understand what others are going through. A high number of former Alzheimer's caregivers volunteer in nursing homes, or with hospice, as she has done. She says, "I cannot leave all my hard-earned experience and research behind when so many families still need it. When I share and help others, it's a tribute to my husband, what he endured, what we went through-hard as it was-a good man, he lived a valuable life, none of it should be thought of in vain."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1420857959
• ISBN 13: 9781420857955
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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