Getting REAL About Alzheimer's: Rementia Through Engagement, Assistance, and Love

Author: Kassandra A. KingPublisher: Plain View PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 1632100045ISBN 13: 978-1632100047Eighteen months since the start of the garden project, a resident previously consumed by loss of his own personhood can be found watering and working among the beauty he created. His story of transformation starts this book. From there, Getting REAL About Alzheimer’s goes on to explain rementia and the glory of caregiving from the heart. This book is about practical possibilities in caring for elderly with deminished cognitive function so they still live a meaningful life. It provides a guide for family and friends of persons with Alzheimer’s, as well as for professional caregivers. These pages contain practical solutions to widespread problems in eldercare. The author writes from direct involvement with thousands of caregivers and care receivers, and from ideas of experts that confirm a vision of possibility using the philosophy of rementia. Getting REAL About Alzheimer’s proposes