Telling tales about dementia : carers share their stories / edited by Lucy Whitman ; foreword by Joanna Trollope.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitman, Lucy, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia--Patients--Care.

Dementia.

Caregivers' writings, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, thirty carers from different backgrounds and circumstances share  their experiences of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. This unique collection of personal accounts will be an engaging read for anyone affected by dementia in a personal or professional context, including social workers, practitioners and care staff.

Contents:

FRONT COVER; Telling Tales About Dementia:Experiences of Caring; Contents; Foreword; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Living with Loss; 1. A Big Enough Supply of Love; 2.We Don't Know What is Going Through her Mind; 3.The Departing Light; 4.Walking on Thin Ice; 5.The Most Difficult Decision of my Life; 6.We Learn to Enter her World; 7.Half a World Away; 8.Have You Seen my Pat?; 9.Feisty Love; 10.Glimpses of Glory on a Long, dark Road; 11.Our Mum Had To Be the Man of the House; 12.On the Contrary; 13.Family Matters; 14.Back and Forth; 15.A Very Important Mustache

Dispatches from the Battlefield 16.This Has Gone Beyond my Mother; 17.Rage, Rage; 18.Forever in my Thoughts; 19.A Sister's Story; 20.Surely the World has changed; 21.Look Back in Anger; 22.Cracks in the System; 23.Strained to the Limit; 24.Break on Through to the Other Side; 25.Rocking the Boat; 26.The Significant Other; 27.An Instruction Manual for Keeping your Mind; Keeping in Touch, Letting Go; 28.When Words Fail; 29.The End of the Story; 30.State of Grace; GLOSSARY; RECOMMENDED READING; HELPFULORGANISATIONS; THE CONTRIBUTORS; WHAT IS FOR DEMENTIA?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-39285-9

9786612392856

0-85700-017-9

OCLC:

507436085