The Caregiver : A Life with Alzheimer's / Aaron Alterra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alterra, Aaron, author.

Contributor:

Kleinman, Arthur.

Series:

The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care.

Alzheimer's disease.

Caregivers.

Medicine & Medical Issues.

Local Subjects:

Medicine & Medical Issues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Aaron and Stella Alterra had been married for more than sixty years when Aaron began to notice puzzling lapses in his wife's memory. Innocuous at first, they became more severe and more alarming. After a series of appointments and tests, the Alterras were informed that Stella was one of the more than 4.5 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease.Combining medical research on the disease and often-painful anecdotes of memory loss, deteriorating motor functions, personality shifts, support-group and daycare experiences, and drug trials, Alterra chronicles his transformation from husband to caregiver after his wife's diagnosis.More than a chronology of one family's experience of Alzheimer's disease, The Caregiver is an intelligent, beautifully reflective testimony to how family members turned caregivers become the ultimate advocates for their loved ones in the face of a disease with no cure.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

1. FORGETTING HOW THINGS ARE DONE

2. THE NEW PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN

3. SECOND OPINIONS

4. GIVING UP THE KEYS

5. THE RIGHT TO KNOW

6. THE REAL AND THE UNREAL

7. ANOTHER WAY

8. PAYING THE BILL

9. I WANT TO GO HOME

CODA

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-2058-9