Eliezer Sobel

The Silver Lining of Alzheimer's: One Son's Journey into the Mystery (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The author's mother endured a 20-year journey with Alzheimer's disease, and he and his wife Shari played a critical role in the last six years of managing her at-home care until she died at 95. They simultaneously cared for his father who had been his mom's chief caregiver until the age of 90, when he fell backward down a stairwell, landed on his head, and suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury. He entered a state of dementia quite suddenly, and Eliezer and Shari moved into his parent's househis childhood homethat very night.

Gradually, over time, he discovered that in addition to the obvious tragic and sometimes violent stages of the disease progression, there were simultaneously many moments of genuine joy, laughter and deep healing that occurred for him and his family. At one point he actually found himself being grateful to Alzheimer's for restoring the mother-son love that had been mostly strained for much of his adult life.

This memoir of those caregiving years is an attempt to provide a balance to all the sad and often horrific accounts of Alzheimer's that are available in abundance, by instead sharing the "silver lining" he discovered that recast his whole experience in a positive light, and he hopes to share that possibility and opportunity with others, while not sugarcoating the many difficult trials they also endured.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eliezer Sobel
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780997121742
• Artikelnr.: 74352853

Autorenporträt

Eliezer Sobel is also the author of Blue Sky, White Clouds: A Book for Memory-Challenged Adults. Although there are over 20,000 books for caregivers, this is one of the only books aimed at the patient. It is a simple, adult, picture book, filled with beautiful, realistic photographs of people and nature, which requires no memory to read and enjoy. If you are caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer's, or know someone who is, this book provides a shared activity that can stimulate conversation if that is still a possibility, and tender moments of connection regardless of what stage of memory-loss the person is in.

See www.blueskywhiteclouds.com for further information.

Sobel is also the author of:

The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments, the tale of the author's hilarious and poignant 30-year journey that regularly took him from the sublime to the insane in equal measure;

Wild Heart Dancing: A Personal One-Day Quest to Liberate the Artist and Lover Within, designed to awaken and unleash the reader's dormant creativity in a one-day, at-home self-intensive;

Why I Am Not Enlightened, an e-book that should make you feel better about not being a Perfectly Realized Master;

and The Manual of Good Luck, long out of print but still makes for a good story. Read about it here:
www.eliezersobel.com/manualgoodluck.html

Eliezer has a blog on PsychologyToday.com, has led creativity intensives and meditation retreats around the United States, and is a certified teacher of the 5Rhythms® movement practice developed by Gabrielle Roth.

He is married to Shari Cordon.

www.eliezersobel.com