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The titles on this list include guides, innovative approaches to care, and memoirs, especially those which highlight the voices of individuals experiencing memory loss. Created by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. Annotations from publisher's copy, unless otherwise attributed.(Created by the Older Adults Program Manager, September 2023)
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Dementia Prevention
Nonfiction. Dementia Prevention provides a dementia risk checklist to better understand your personal risk profile to help you on your journey. The authors' training and experience as behavioral scientists will help you set better goals, identify roadblocks to success, and overcome these obstacles.
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Floating in the Deep End
Nonfiction. In a singular account of battling Alzheimer's, Patti Davis eloquently weaves personal anecdotes with practical advice tailored specifically for the overlooked caregiver.
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A Fade of Light
Nonfiction. A memoir of a cartoonist's formative experiences in life and his close relationship with his stepdad, who is later diagnosed with FTD.
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The Brain Health Kitchen
Nonfiction. Dr. Annie Fenn gives readers a guide to preserving cognitive ability through food, with 100 recipes to promote mental acuity.
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The Complete Family Guide to Dementia
Nonfiction. Learn how to "care smarter, not harder" - and help your loved one maintain the best possible quality of life.
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When A Loved One Has Dementia
Nonfiction. A vital source of solace and compassion for those whose loved one has dementia, rooted in the author's unflinching experience of caring for her mother.
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Four Umbrellas
Nonfiction. Provides a fresh perspective, bending the usual caretaker narrative by enfolding the voice of the person with the disease. A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory.
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Winter Stars
Nonfiction. Dave Iverson was a busy broadcast journalist recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he decided to do something he'd never quite imagined: He moved in to take care of his 95-year-old mom.
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My Father's Brain
Nonfiction. A doctor's memoir about his father's experience of dementia, and an overview of the history of and latest findings on the disease.
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Dick Johnson Is Dead
Nonfiction. A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia.
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