Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A must for health care workers in assisted living facilities. Understand Alzheimer's disease through the family's eyes with interviews from family members and staff.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer?s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caring for a Loved One with Dementia is a unique and compassionate guide that offers an effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) program to help you meet your own needs and lower stress levels while caring for your loved one.Caring for a loved one with dementia can be extremely stressful. This essential guide provides skills for dealing with the accompanying emotional and physical stress, and offers tools to help you manage your own needs,...
5) Exile
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2012, ©2012
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his successful London career implodes, journalist Tom Ronstadt returns to his hometown in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years and finds his father Sam in the grip of Alzheimer's. Tom is trying to unravel the mystery that drove him away from home. He persists, unaware that a devastating crime that will reveal unimaginable secrets.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
6 CDs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Cohen, a Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin reporter, tells her story of being a single mother to her daughter Ava, as well as the home caregiver to her aging father, Sanford, who is suffering from mid- to late-stage Alzheimer's.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Almost six million Americans -- about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five -- have Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. In My Father's Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father's descent into Alzheimer's alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured. In an intimate memoir rich...
Author
Series
Ala delta. Serie Verde volume 74
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
155 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Nina y sus padres han tenido que hacer un largo viaje hasta la casa de la abuela Amelia, que está enferma. Ella parece que pierde la memoria y que ya no puede vivir sola. Al menos, eso es lo que creen. Su nieta, sin embargo, no está dispuesta a aceptar que Amelia tenga que vivir en una residencia y se olviden todas sus historias.
Nina and her parents had to take a long trip to visit her grandmother Amelia, who's sick. It seems she's been losing...
13) A vow to cherish
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Pulbishers
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1. ed. para EEUU y Canadá.
Physical Desc
35 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Roberto's grandfather has Alzheimer's Disease. At first Roberto and his sister are preoccupied with the changes. But after talking with their mother, they understand that they should accept their grandfather as he now is. All come together to help their grandfather and to have the family continue enjoying life.
El abuelito no se ve enfermo, pero una enfermera viene a su casa para cuidarlo. ¿Qué está pasando? El abuelito tiene la enfermedad...
Publisher
Distributed by Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 discussion sheet (2 p.).
Language
English
Description
This dynamic video offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential and difficult.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 188 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a chance encounter with a handsome, idealistic stranger on a plane in 1969, Polly Young-Eisendrath rediscovered Ed Epstein a decade later when she least expected it. After untangling themselves from their existing relationships, they married in 1985 and spent the next 25 years together. They were soul mates, but in 2001, Ed (at the vital age of 53) began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. over the next 10 years, as her husband gradually...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (533 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Examines how Alzheimer's affects patients, patient's families, and caregivers, as well as current progress on research and treatment of the disease.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request