“… an enthralling, ambitious and
much-needed effort…most definitely the sort of work on Alzheimer's
that needs to get public notice."”
Karla Morales, People’s Medical Society,
Speaking about
SHARED STORIES FROM DAUGHTERS OF ALZHEIMER’S:
Writing a Path to Peace
Edited by Persis R. Granger, with Introduction by Kathleen Adams
A support group in print for families coping with Alzheimer's disease.
Over four and one-half million Americans are
afflicted with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The chance of developing it increases
two-fold with each five years of age beyond 65. One study estimates that
one half of individuals 85 or older exhibit its symptoms. Due to an increase
in life expectancy, it is expected that the population of Americans over
85 will nearly triple in the next 30 years, and that scenario will be
duplicated in industrialized nations all over the world.
The number of AD victims is escalating astronomically. By extension, one
recognizes that the number of victims' family members awash in Alzheimer's
ripple effect of anguish and guilt is incalculable and growing. If you
are an adult over the age of forty, you are acquainted with several people
dealing with the dreadful deterioration of a parent with Alzheimer's disease.
There is a good chance you are facing it in your own family.
Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer’s was
written to help those families who are coming to grips with Alzheimer’s
devastation of a loved one. Each of nine women maps her parent’s
journey through Alzheimer’s disease, not only describing the progression
of the illness from the first hint that something “might be wrong”
with the parent, but also chronicling the unique evolution of her own
emotional grappling with the lingering loss and all its implications.
The spectrum of responses they describe illustrates that there is no single
“right” response to AD, and that each individual must find
what is right in his or her own life situation.
Kathleen Adams, founder of the Center for Journal Therapy in Lakewood,
Colorado, and author of four books on the power of writing to heal, including
the best-selling Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal
Growth (Warner Books, 1990), has written the introduction. She
suggests ways in which those coping with Alzheimer’s disease may
use journal writing to help them sort through their feelings and empower
themselves to deal with the disease.
Readers are invited to begin their own self-healing through journal writing,
prompted by “springboards” offered at the end of each chapter.
A foreword is written by Patricia Jimison, founder and first director
of the Alzheimer’s Resource Center in Orlando, Florida, and a leader
in Alzheimer’s caregiving advocacy in that state.
Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer’s: Writing a
Path to Peace
Print version--$15.95 + S/H; or download an E-book--$6.00
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