This timely book, laced with poignant stories, focuses on the emotional impact of this disease on the caregivers and offers specific coping strategies they can use to keep them emotionally sane in this chaotic time.
This timely book, laced with poignant stories, focuses on the emotional impact of this disease on the caregivers and offers specific coping strategies they can use to keep them emotionally sane in this chaotic time.
Sandy Braff, M.F.T. is a licensed individual, marriage, and family therapist in private practice in San Diego. Since 1989, she has facilitated a weekly Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group for the San Diego Alzheimer’s Association. Mary Rose Olenik participated in an N.I.H. grant studying the effects of stress on the immune system of Alzheimer’s caregivers while a Staff Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. She lives in New Hampshire.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginning Stage 1. First Encounters 2. If Only I Could Be Wrong: Tentative Diagnosis 3. What Now? Reactions to the Diagnosis 4. Reaching In and Reaching Out: Adaptation 5. Rallying the Troops: Family Reactions 6. The Shell Without the Pearl: Transcending Loss Part II: The Middle Stage 7. Coming to Terms 8. Confronting the Demons: Your Emotional Reactions to the Middle Stage 9. Tears of Laughter: The Importance of Humor 10. The Mars and Venus of Adapting to Change: Gender Difference 11. The Lonely Bed: Adapting to Profound Loss of Intimacy 12. Harvesting Your Communal Garden: Preventing Burnout 13. I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Know I Can: Resiliency Part III: The Late Middle Stage 14. The Long Good-bye 15. I'm Beat and I'm Scared: Caregiving Intensifies—Resource Options 16. When Alone Equals Lonely: Loneliness and Companionship Part IV: The Final Stage and Beyond 17. Nearing the Journey's End: Final Stages of Alzheimer's 18. The Relief of Planning Ahead: Advance Directives 19. Another Paradox: Anticipatory Grief and Mourning 20. At Peace, My Love: Death of a Spouse 21. Cleaning Out the Closets: The Process of the Closure 22. Honoring Your Tomorrows: Reentry Post Caregiving Bibliography Index
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginning Stage 1. First Encounters 2. If Only I Could Be Wrong: Tentative Diagnosis 3. What Now? Reactions to the Diagnosis 4. Reaching In and Reaching Out: Adaptation 5. Rallying the Troops: Family Reactions 6. The Shell Without the Pearl: Transcending Loss Part II: The Middle Stage 7. Coming to Terms 8. Confronting the Demons: Your Emotional Reactions to the Middle Stage 9. Tears of Laughter: The Importance of Humor 10. The Mars and Venus of Adapting to Change: Gender Difference 11. The Lonely Bed: Adapting to Profound Loss of Intimacy 12. Harvesting Your Communal Garden: Preventing Burnout 13. I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Know I Can: Resiliency Part III: The Late Middle Stage 14. The Long Good-bye 15. I'm Beat and I'm Scared: Caregiving Intensifies—Resource Options 16. When Alone Equals Lonely: Loneliness and Companionship Part IV: The Final Stage and Beyond 17. Nearing the Journey's End: Final Stages of Alzheimer's 18. The Relief of Planning Ahead: Advance Directives 19. Another Paradox: Anticipatory Grief and Mourning 20. At Peace, My Love: Death of a Spouse 21. Cleaning Out the Closets: The Process of the Closure 22. Honoring Your Tomorrows: Reentry Post Caregiving Bibliography Index
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