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Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xvi, 166 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caring for a person with dementia is a difficult and often- overwhelming task. In addition to the inevitable decline in memory and physical function, most persons with dementia develop one or more troublesome behavior problems, such as depression, fearfulness, sleep disturbances, paranoia, or physical aggression at some point in their disease. Behavioral challenges in dementia are highly idiosyncratic. No two patients are alike, and interventions...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stephen Aston is getting married again. The only problem is, he's still married to his first wife, even though she is in a care facility for dementia. But he'll take care of that easily, by divorcing her--even if his adult daughters protest. Tully and Rachel Aston look upon Heather as nothing but an interloper. Heather is the same age as Rachel and even younger than Tully. Clearly she's a golddigger and after their father's money. Heather has secrets...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October...
Author
Language
English
Description
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
Stump always has a fantastic time with his grandparents, filled with flowers, puzzles, crosswords, and endless love. But one day, Stump's grandfather starts to lose his memory--and his words, which literally fall from him. Stump tries his best to keep the lost words safe, collecting them in a special box. But Grandpa seems to forget more and more everyday, and the situation comes to a head one snowy night when Stump wakes up to find Grandpa missing....
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xx, 339 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text for families and friends of those suffering with Alzheimer disease, dementia, and memory loss. Includes new information on: laws; assisted living; eating and nutrition; and medical research on drugs, genetics, and diagnostic tests.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize--a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attempts to discover the truth about this man. Does he really have dementia? Is he a murderer?...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A diabetic woman awakens from a coma having forgotten the last ten years of her life. A Haitian immigrant has nightmares that begin bleeding into his waking hours. A retired teacher loses the use of her right hand due to pain of no known origin. Noga Arikha began studying these patients and their confounding symptoms in order to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. Soon after she initiated her work, the question took on unexpected...
10) Tinkers
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve.
11) Remember
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an elderly Holocaust survivor escapes from a nursing home, he seeks revenge on the Nazi commandant who murdered his family.
12) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eighty-year-old man with dementia who defiantly refuses assistance from his daughter tries to make sense of his circumstances.
13) TailSpin
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying his Cessna over the Appalachians, with a very important passenger: renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean; their destination is Washington, D.C. Upon their arrival, the FBI will protect the doctor--and ascertain just who wants him dead. But they dont́ make it. In San Francisco, married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock take an early morning phone call from their supervisor, Jimmy Maitland....
Author
Publisher
BJB Pub
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
xvi, 214 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A practical guide for anyone who has assumed responsibility for the care and management of someone with Alzheimer's or other dementia causing disease or injury. Therapeutic Caregiving presents specific techniques for keeping persons with dementia more functional, both mentally and physically. Therapeutic Caregiving is expressly written for family members and employed in-home caregivers, but it is also ideal for the staff of adult family homes and...
16) Here today
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a woman goes to a lunch date with an aging comedy writer, that her ex-boyfriend won in an auction lottery, the two unexpectedly take a liking to each other.
17) Savages
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jon and Wendy Savage (Hoffman and Linney) are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny (Bosco). Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and her family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though -- almost a lifetime ago -- and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws...
19) The longevity kitchen: satisfying, big-flavor recipes featuring the top 16 age-busting power foods
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xi, 243 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of 120 whole-foods, big-flavor recipes that combat and prevent chronic diseases and other conditions that plague American adults, enabling readers to live longer, healthier lives"--
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : DVD, color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 750,000 elderly Americans are spending their later years in for-profit assisted living facilities. This loosely regulated, multibillion-dollar industry is dominated by one company: Emeritus Senior Living. In a year-long investigation, Frontline and ProPublica raise questions about fatal lapses in care, understaffing, and a quest for profits.
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