Cary, Lorene

Summary: Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARY CAR

Villieu, Valérie

Summary: "When Valérie first met Josephine, she knew she would be embarking on a unique journey. Though vastly different in age, their connection was instantaneous. Humor quickly became their language, their playground, and despite the debilitating disease that Joséphine faced every single day, they were able to form a beautiful friendship that transcended the reaches of modern medicine." -- goodreads.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 VIL

Estreich, George.

Summary: The author discusses the raising of his daughter, Laura Estreich, with Down syndrome.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ESTREICH, GEORGE EST

Acheson, Alison

Summary: "A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS. Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away. Dance Me to the End is an evocative memoir about the emotional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Brindle & Glass 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHESON, ALISON ACH

Burks, Ruth Coker

Summary: "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling tohelp. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURKS, RUTH COKER BUR

Comer, Meryl.

Summary: "A profoundly personal, unflinching account of Meryl Comer's 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.1 COM

Ball, Troylyn

Summary: Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Nearing fifty, Troy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, TROYLYN BAL

Hodgman, George.

Summary: "A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother--a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love. When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook--in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HODGMAN, GEORGE HOD

Gillies, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 GIL

Sellou, Abdel

Summary: "The highest-grossing non-English-language film of all time, Intouchables reveals the life of a charismatic con man, Abdél Sellou (played by the award-winning actor Omar Sy), whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, inspired the record-breaking hit movie. You Changed My Life is Abdel Sellou's memoir of growing up on the streets of Pris as a cheeky young...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 944.084 SEL

Niemi, Lisa.

Summary: The wife of the late Patrick Swayze presents an account of grief, loss, caregiving and moving on while sharing stories about their final months together and discussing their teenage romance, dance careers, and thirty-four-year marriage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWAYZE, PATRICK SWA

Kane, Robert L.

Contents: Background -- The stroke -- Rehabilitation -- Assisted living -- The dementia unit -- Nursing home -- Doctors, other medical personnel, and hospitals -- Informal care -- The roads not taken -- End of life -- What kind of long-term care do we want? -- What can we do about it?.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.61 KAN