The Alzheimer's Diary: One Woman's Experience from Caregiver to Widow
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1491731621 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ms. Sutton lyrically describes the ordeal of coping with AD from onset in her beloved husband to her own lonely widowhood. Ernest Pepples Review By Ernest Pepples (received from Amazon as gift from Duane Elliott)The Alzheimer’s DiaryOne woman’s experience from caregiver to widowby Joan SuttonMs. Sutton’s book is about surviving the cruel blows that Alzheimer’s disease delivers to a loving relationship, doing it at home with as much humanity as possible, and then coping with the immense post-death silence and the hopeless emptiness that settles in all around the survivor. Written in everyday, down-to-earth journalistic style, it&rsqu. I feel her love and her suffering as if it were my own What can I sayJoan Sutton reaches my soulI feel her love and her suffering as if it were my own. Write onnever stopa must forevery care giver and everyone else.
About the Author Joan Sutton One of Canada's best known journalists, Joan Sutton's byline has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun, the Houston Post, and the Boston Herald. Her blog Sutton's Place, is popular with readers in 40 countries on WordPress.Com and is also available on The Huffington Post. Her commentaries have been aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CFRB radio and her columns have been collected in three best selling books.
Following his death, after what Nancy Reagan described as "the long goodbye", she writes candidly about coping with her new status as a widow and the aching loneliness of the heart that is the price paid for having known a great love. Sutton offers practical advice for the care of the caregiver and the patient, and shares the pain that came as she watched pieces of her husband's self disappear. Cover design by John R. One who Forgets and One who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Lewis. All profits from the sale of this book will benefit The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation/Canada. In her memoir, author Joan Sutton narrates a moving account of her years as caregiver to her husband, noting that "Alzheimer's is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the cu
Her blog Sutton's Place, is popular with readers in 40 countries on WordPress.Com and is also available on The Huffington Post. Her commentaries have been aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CFRB radio and her columns have been collected in three best selling books. Joan Sutton One of Canada's best known journalists, Joan Sutton's byline has appeared in the Toronto