Coping with Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Emotional Survival Guide

by Rose Oliver and Frances A. Bock

Book Overview

Overview Coping With Alzheimer'sspeaks directly to you, the caregiver, in its exploration of thse emotions. You are taught where feelings come from, how they work, and the behaviors--adaptive and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879804246
• ISBN13: 9780879804244
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Wilshire Book Company
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An absolute must for spouses and children

This book addresses most of the emotional issues for spousal and chilren who caregive someone with dementia. It shows how you can think your way out of the deep hole you put yourself in while caring for your loved one. Change your thinking and you will automatically make things better for both you and your whole family. Buy this book!!!

for the caregiver

so many books out there focus on the person with alzheimers and very few address the caregiver adequately. My ailing mother is caring for my father and her inability to do a good job was fodder for all sorts of of emotional issues - she needed more than a small chapter in the back of a book. This book was wonderful and validated all her feelings and let her know she was not alone. Too bad it's so difficult to find. It has a question and answer format with questions like "I feel so bad when I yell at him for not remembering. I know he's sick but I just get so frustrated! What can I do?". Practical, useful, and true to life.

Caring for Alzheimer's - from the Caregiver's Point of View

If you're caring for an Alzheimer's patient, you already understand how demanding, and often frustrating, the job can be. Olive and Bock understand as well. They approach the problems with true help for the caregiver. If you don't understand the problems of caring for Alzheimer's, read this book! If you do, read this book! There's real help in these pages! Phyllis Staff, Ph.D. author, "How to Find Great Senior Housing" and "128 Ways to Prevent Alzheimer's and Other Dementias"

Very practical

Coping with Alzheimer's is a very practical survival guide for caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's. It is very well written and easily readable, not preachy or "textbooky." Highly recommended.

Focus on what CAN be controlled : the caregiver's thoughts

This is a remarkable and extremely useful book for all caregivers and family members of Alzheimer's and Dementia patients. It utilizes principles of "RET" or Rational Emotive Therapy pioneered by Dr. Albert Ellis. Simply put, the concept holds that one's perception of events will determine the corresponding feeling or emotion. A deceptively simple but powerful concept in battling depression, anger, and frustration. In the case of Alzheimer's caregivers, this premise can be a literal lifesaver and Drs. Oliver and Bock use their own case histories of treating caregivers to demonstrate pratical, powerful "inner dialogues" that can be used when the daily stress and frustrations of dealing with this challenging condition come to bear. Specific chapters are devoted to: Shame,Guilt, Anger, Depression, and even Self-Pity. This book not only provides the means to lift the spirits and emotions of caregivers, but by doing so, potentially change for the better the necessary interactions between them and their stricken loved-one. Highly recommended!