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Coping with Dementia: Alzheimer's Roadmap

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Coping with Dementia: Alzheimer's Roadmap

By: Laura Town, Karen Hoffman
Narrated by: Sam Clapp
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Caregiving is the most stressful job in the world, but you are not alone. Despite the fact that millions are caregivers, it is still hard to get the emotional support you need. Listen to this audiobook and follow the simple checklists to learn how to:

  • Cope with a diagnosis of dementia and prepare emotionally for the changes that will follow.
  • Avoid caregiver burnout with strategies for maintaining emotional health.
  • Identify risk factors and prevent or treat anxiety, depression, stress, anger, frustration, guilt, and other emotional effects of caregiving
  • Effectively communicate with loved ones who have dementia.
  • Tailor your caregiving strategies to your loved ones emotional needs.

If you have been diagnosed with dementia or are providing care to someone with dementia, you are not alone, although you often may feel that way when confronting this terrible illness. Don’t give up hope. Use the checklists in Coping with Dementia to protect yourself from the emotional effects of dealing with dementia and maintain your personal well-being in spite of everything.

About the authors

Laura Town is a professional medical writer, but more importantly, is a caregiver to her father who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 62. Laura is former President of the Indiana chapter of the American Medical Writers Association and has been published by Pearson Education, and John Wiley and Sons.

Karen Hoffman, PhD, has received fellowships from the PhRMA Foundation and the American Heart Association, respectively. She has published research in the American Journal of Pathology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

©2019 Omega Press (P)2019 Laura Town
Alzheimer's & Dementia Medicine & Health Care Industry Personal Development Dementia Alzheimer's Disease Mental Health

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