The honest, compassionate and vital guide to getting older, from dementia to finances, medication to care homes'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read.
EXTRAORDINARY MEMOIR OF A LIFE AND LOVE TORN APART BY DEMENTIAWhen her husband Tony was diagnosed with Alzheimer s in 2004, Steph Booth had to say goodbye to life as she knew it.
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction'Exquisite' The New York Times'A tale of grief and memory awash with dark humour and wit' Spectator____________________________________________________"e;Up there,"e; she says, "e;I'm just another little old lady.
Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Development Disorder is an essential guide for parents with autistic children who hope to better understand and intervene with the disorder.
Demenz-WG: Klingt schräg – ist aber eine prima SacheEin charmantes Plädoyer für eine Wohnform, die Menschen mit Demenz gerecht wird und ihnen ein maximal selbstbestimmtes Leben ermöglicht.
In ihrem ebenso warmherzigen wie humorvoll überspitzten Roman "Tage zwischen Ebbe und Flut" zeigt die Journalistin Carin Müller eine Familie im emotionalen Ausnahmezustand.
En las próximas décadas el envejecimiento será el principal fenómeno demográfico que caracterice a la dinámica poblacional de la región y, como tal, requiere un abordaje multidisciplinario que permita comprender la vejez como proceso individual y colectivo desde distintas dimensiones.
'An inspirational call to arms' DAILY MAIL'This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear' THE TIMES'A thoughtful handbook to help societies age gracefully' FINANCIAL TIMES'This bold, visionary book is a wake-up call to governments.
**Winner of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year Award 2023****Winner of the Rugby Book of the Year Award 2023****Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022**'Powerful, moving' - The Guardian'A deeply affecting read [.
A raw, unsentimental and passionately written memoir about trying to care for a parent with Alzheimers When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her.
A call to action to prevent a brain health crisis - does for diet what Why We Sleep does for sleep 'I cannot recommend this book enough' - Dr Rupy Aujla, author of The Doctor's KitchenWe often talk about how our diets affect our fitness - but we don't discuss how they affect the hungriest organ in the body, the brain.
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer.
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse'Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book' Andrew Marr'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures.
This book will transform you through its moving stories about reaching into the world of an Alzheimers patient, about helping someone die a more peaceful death, and about inspiring a child with a special need to sing and dance.
The heart-warming true story of the bond between a feisty octogenarian and the man in charge of building a shopping mall on top of her home - which inspired the opening scene of the Pixar movie Up!
A MOVING, CAPTIVATING MYSTERY BELOVED BY READERS AND PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS AND ELIZABETH IS MISSINGOn a suburban street filled with secrets, 82 year old Edie Green must look back into the past to discover what happened to her friend Lucy, who went missing years before .
Winner of the 2002 BMA Popular Medicine Book Prize: This is a haunting literary and scientific examination of Alzheimer's disease and the race to find a cure.