Alzheimer's from the Inside Out | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Taylor
Publisher: Health Professions Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 30957
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Edition: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1932529233
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1968310092
EAN: 9781932529234
ASIN: 1932529233
Publication Date: December 31, 2006
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Product Description
Richard Taylor has lived for five years with a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is now a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Richard served on the board of the Houston and Southeast Texas Alzheimer's Association and is now a member of a special committee of the National Alzheimer's Association looking at how to evaluate and provide effective support to individuals in the early stages of the disease. He has started over 50 chat rooms worldwide for people with Alzheimer's disease and their loved ones and he is also the editor of a quarterly newsletter for people with early-onset, early-stage Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. Originally, Richard started writing essays to better understand for himself what was going on inside of him. He now writes to share his experiences with other individuals with the disease and their caregivers. His insights into himself and the disease are always honest, direct, poignant, and sometimes even witty. His essays have been published in "Alzheimer's Care Quarterly". Richard lives in Cypress, Texas with his spouse Linda and his Bouvier des Flandres dog, Annie. His son and family live across the street from him. He spends his days playing with his two grandchildren, gardening, and writing.
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 Personal experiences with Alzheimer's August 21, 2008
Hal E. Gieseking (Williamsburg Virginia)
I found this book profoundly moving since my wife is caring for an individual with advanced Alzheimer's. The statistics are frightening. Metlife Foundation surveys have found that adults 55 and older fear Alzheimer's more than cancer. 4.5 million Americans currently have Alzheimer's. Some of the symptoms we have observed personally include wandering, inability to perform even basic human tasks (such as unlocking a public toilet door from the inside), striking out at people, grabbing small children, wandering,using foul language and losing an understanding of colors. I have recently read Hermine Hilton's new book, Fuhggeddaboutit! The book that will help you stop worrying about your memory (and Alzheimer's). I benefited from her hundred tips on improving your memory. The book is brand new and should be listed on amazon.com soon. Right now I found it at www.lulu.com/tontent/237234. One other important thing I have learned. Never discuss something an Alzheimer's victim has done wrong or try to contrict him or her. Often their brain is operating and hearing even though they can't responsd and you run the risk of making them needlessly upset.
 Critical of Jesus, disturbing comparision!! May 7, 2008
Stephen Jacob
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Right off the author critizes the writers of the New Testament. What does faith have to do with this book??? He puts down the Bible as contradicting. His book is only his perspective!!! I really did not like it at all.
ONCE March 27, 2008
Robert E. Nale (Sandpoint, ID United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fast service, great book from a first-person perspective, insightful and thought-provoking for those who have a friend or family member with this disease..
A must read if involved with Alzheimer's March 1, 2008
E. McDowell (Paris, Texas)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Reading all the books I can find on this disease. This book was suggested as a must read at a Alzheimer's seminar. I am a caregiver trying to understand and care for my mother. This is a very informative book in the eyes of the person with Alzheimer's. Very eye opening for me. God Bless all who are dealing with this disease and those who love them and want the best for them. Thank you Mr. Taylor and may God Bless you and your family.
A Dementia Patient Comments February 10, 2008
Alan Hall (Littleton, CO USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have early dementia, fitting the criteria for Alzheimer's. Like the author, I was a psychotherapist in my 50s when my difficulties became such that I couldn't work. It's incredibly powerful to read his words, and see what I would have said if I were only so gifted. Most importantly, I want doctors to read this book, as most of them relate only to dementia as it looks in the end stage, and aren't familiar with what the early disease process looks like.
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