Courage to Care: A Caregiver's Guide Through Each Stage of Alzheimer's

by Joanne Parrent

Book Overview

Alzheimer's disease is often referred to as a family disease because of the constant emotional strain it places on family members as they watch their loved ones slowly slip away. But for those left with caring for their loved ones, the emotional, physical, and financial toll can be enormous-so much so that most caregivers fail to take care of themselves and become depressed, ill and unable to continue their role as caregiver. Courage to Care: A Caregiver's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028642023
• ISBN13: 9780028642024
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great book for caregivers of Alzheimer sufferers.

I am enjoying reading this book because it is easy to read & understand the various stages of Alzheimers. I find the personal statements helpful as well. I think it is easier to relate to what is happening to my Mom since I have started reading it.

Everyone eventually might well need this book.

Joanne Parrent, in her COURAGE TO CARE, gives hope to anyone with an elderly parent or other loved one. ... Parrent's carefully thought through, detailed discussion of what to expect and how to handle each eventuality made my own life much easier and less guilt-ridden. I could be in the moment with my mother and stop worrying about whether she would remember what we'd done the minute before. Parrent also made me feel better about employing skilled home workers who lovingly, not only cared for my mother, but also sat with her, talking and playing music. I learned from Parrent's book that we had to live each minute at a time. ...THE COURAGE TO CARE was invaluable to me, as I know it will be for everyone who reads it. In fact, I wish I'd read this important book sooner so that I could have prepared myself for the inevitable. The crash course of reading the book, nonetheless, worked for me, as I know it will for others with loved ones who are losing their mental faculties. Parrent deserves a huge commendation for getting all this material into one book and making it readable, indeed engrossing.