Painted Diaries: A Mother and Daughter's Exprience Through Alzheimer's

By Kim Howes Zabbia

The powerful story of a mother and daughter writing and painting through Alzheimer's. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157749007X
• ISBN13: 9781577490074
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

A Touching and Creative Family Chronicle of Alzheimer's

Covering a period of eleven years (1982-1993) in the life of one family, this touching book chronicles one woman's Alzheimer's journey through her own journal entries, and the paintings and journal of her daughter, Kim. Treasured family photos are included, for example there is, made in 1982, is a group picture of four generations, including Kim's mother, a former journalist, her grandmother, and her daughter at nine weeks old. There is even a photo of the mother's declining writing, as she wrote "I love you" in the fall of 1989. As the years passed and the disease progressed in her mother's life, Kim, a teacher, artist, and graduate student working on a degree in art, was influenced by the disease in her paintings. Kim's paintings changed as she explored her family's emotional struggle and visualized her mother's feelings in her work. Kim and her mother's journey was aided by their creativity in helping them cope, understand, and express the changes brought about by what her mother called "Al, Mrs. Zheimer's son".

A Wonderful Resource!

"Painted Diaries" offers a perspective on Alzheimer's Disease which helped our family, and especially my wife, cope with the lonely jouney of my mother-in-law's illness. By sharing her experiences, Kim Howes Zabbia awakened us to a positive, proactive perspective on this most difficult topic. It is an excellent book, and we share it with anyone facing Alzheimer's in their family. It has been a blessing to us all.

Best book ever

Painted Diaries is one of the best books I have ever read! I could not stop reading it. It is a great book for families how are expeirenceing the painful Alzhiemers disease. I STRONGLY reacomind it!

Painted Diaries-a mother & daughters experience thru alzheimer

This is such wonderful reading. a book I did not want to put down till I finished.I strongly recommend this book for any family experiecing this emotional time and disease, or just good reading. The author has such an enlightning & informative way of writing about such a sad disease that affects so many people