Huelat, Barbara J.
Summary: "The dementia journey for both caregiver and patient can be chaotic and scary, and while there is no cure for dementia, there ARE interventions that can help make the journey a calmer and more comfortable one. Barbara Huelat offers practical strategies to mitigate the turbulence of dementia care"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Summary: "Cognitive disorders take a toll on everyone -- the person living with the condition, their family, friends, caregivers, and the communities they live in. While there is an increasing amount of medical research in this field, there is a lack of firsthand information about the experience of living with these disorders and caring for people with dementia. Voices in Dementia Care is based on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 HASHelmink, Eveline
Summary: "A vital source of solace and compassion for those whose loved one has dementia, rooted in the author's unflinching experience of caring for her mother."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 HELPowell, Tia
Summary: "The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to mention confronting the hard truth that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 POWWoodell, Patricia.
Summary: The purpose of this book is to help families manage the legal, medical, and financial affairs of aging parents and spouses with dementia. Are the Keys in the Freezer?—An Advocate’s Guide for Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias, is a straight-to-the-point beginner’s book chock full of resources aimed at helping families get organized.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 WOOShagam, Janet Yagoda.
Summary: "More than five million people living in the United States have Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia. "An Unintended Journey" is designed to address the needs and challenges faced by adult children and other family members who are scrambling to make sense of what is happening to themselves and the loved ones in their care"--"Everything from diagnosis to estate management ; tools...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013
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Summary: "This book addresses the challenges teenagers may face when a family member has dementia. It offers valuable information and support, with stories from young adults themselves and interviews with adults who know and care for people with dementia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 616.8 ROWTopol, Eric J.
Summary: "In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's Gutenberg moment--much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 610.285 TOPBoswell, Patricia A.
Summary: "When it comes to caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, the right caregiving can make all the difference. Here, Patricia Boswell shares structured routines, life hacks, and best practices that are evidence-based and focused on maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the entire family. As a nurse and dementia expert, Boswell knows that the best caregivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lachance Pub Llc 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 GIBSaunders, Gerda
Summary: Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Summary: This book provies a "comprehensive guide that explains everything you and your family need to know about living well with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. A loved one’s dementia diagnosis can leave you feeling scared and overwhelmed. Now a renowned geriatrician who has helped thousands of families live happy, engaged lives—after a dementia diagnosis—shares her expertise in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging LandsverkNegendank, Megan
Summary: "In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, a sex therapist offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to help readers nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a more secure relationship with a partner who has experienced past sexual trauma. In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner's past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2023
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Summary: "Provides accessible science and health information for the love of your boobs, especially when they have cancer. Dana Brantley-Seiders spent twenty years working as a biomedical breast cancer researcher. Then, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She thought she knew breast cancer before it whacked her upside her left boob and left her bleeding on the curb of uncertainty. Turns out, she had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom BrantleyContreras, Jorge L.
Summary: "The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.7304 CONSalenger, Susan
Summary: "Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health discloses how women have been marginalized and hesitate to take control over their own healthcare. But what's behind this nationwide medical crisis? Too often, women downplay or ignore their symptoms to avoid being "difficult," often blaming themselves for serious illness. The end result could be inferior care, which can lead to serious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.0424 SALVolandes, Angelo E.
Summary: "There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swan Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 DYEGreenleaf, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1961
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 GreenleafPadgett, Jason.
Summary: "No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADGETT, JASON PADSoriano, Jen
Summary: The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SORIANO, JEN SORBerry, Mike
Summary: "In their twenty-year marriage, Mike and Kristin Berry have had the joy of adopting eight children and fostering twenty-three. In Securely Attached, they offer practical insights, supported by therapeutic and medical facts, so all parents can better carefor the children in their home who have experienced past trauma"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 BERShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 2000