Alzheimer's - Finding the Words: A Communication Guide for Those Who Care

By Harriet Hodgon and Harriet Hodgson

Book Overview

A ray of hope for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients

Alzheimer's afflicts millions of people around the world, as well as the family members who care for them. Alzheimer's -- Finding the Words: A Communication Guide for Those Who Care offers practical help for both the sufferer and their caregivers by easing paths of communication as the disease progresses. Faltering speech and language processing is often at the root of common behavioral changes that cause conflict; by showing you what to expect and how to work around the changes, this book provides a lifeline that can help make your time together more fulfilling on both sides.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00APY8I28
• ISBN13: 9780471346579
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Book: Alzheimer's - Find the Words...

This is a wonderful, common-sense book for those dealing with a loved one with Alzheimer's. We found it so helpful and insightful that we ordered additional copies.

Thank God there is help

Without this book my wife and I would not have survived my Mother in law last few years.

A Wonderful Guide

"Finding the words" to communicate with someone who has Alzheimer's is a problem-- especially after many words have lost their meanings to that person. Harriet Hodgson, the daughter of an Alzheimer's patient, has done an excellent job in giving us a guidebook for communicating in the daily struggle all caregivers go through, as she gives us many antidotes from her personal experience with her mother. In this book, we learn about communication at all stages of the disease, the causes of communication problems, and how to "run interference" or "identifying and dealing with the obstacles before they deal with us." We can't fix things; we can't make everything right for the person with Alzheimer's, but we can try to achieve better communication, realizing, as the author says in her epilogue: "It isn't easy for caregivers to find the words they want. Some days we succeed; other days we fall short of our goal. The important thing is that we're trying to improve communication. And that we keep on trying because we care."