Love Never Sleeps: Living at Home with Alzheimer's

by Mary Summer Rain

Mary Summer Rain took the mother of her dear Friends Sally into her home. She wrote this book for potential caregivers, to help them make an informed choice re guarding this difficult situation. If... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571743251
• ISBN13: 9781571743251
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Amazing book!

This is an excellent book. It came out right when my father was diagnosed with dementia and it has helped me SO much in dealing with him and his decline. This is one of the best books to read when you have a loved one with dementia.

Priceless Experience that can be a Great Benefit to All....

Love Never Sleeps is informative, honest and written with wonderful real-life experiences from the caregiver perspective. As a caregiver myself, I've experienced very similar events while caring for my grandmother and I wish this book would have been out years ago. You can find reference books on Alzheimer's but this is one of the few that tells it like it is... and gives suggestions and ideas as to how to work with some of the issues that you may encounter. Living with Alzheimer's is unpredictable and this book shares the real-life side of some of the things you may experience. We have another family member with Alzheimer's at this time and out of all the material I've read from the onset of my grandmother's illness in 1998 to her death in 2000 as well as research to date, this is by far the most informative and helpful. Mary, Sally and Mary Belle have shared a priceless experience that can be a great benefit to all who are involved in anyway with an individual that is experiencing Alzheimer's. Wonderful toolkit and a must read for family and caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients.Kudos Mary, Sally and Mary Belle - Thank you for this enlightening work!!!

An invaluble guide for caregivers....

This book is full of amazing factual and spiritual insight into caring for someone who has Alzheimer's disease. If you are an at-home caregiver for a loved one afflicted with Alzheimer's, you will find a wellspring of ideas and real life experiences to draw on here. It is truly an invaluble guide for caregivers.

Engrossing,Emotional,Informitive.........Dignified.

Mary Summer Rain & Sally's personel journey through the process of caring for Sally's terminally ill Mother at home was written with much honesty and integrity.It was a very emotional book,and I had to stop several times and cry.This book was very resourcful,and was written for caregivers of people afflicted with Alzhiemers.Although I can say from personal experience it applied to other terminal diseaces as well.Apparently not enough information was written for "caregivers"So Mary wrote about the different stages of this disease,and the various symptoms and behaviors associated with them based on examples from thier journey with Sally's Mom.This was done in a very dignified manor.With Much love and respect,yet didnt sugar coat it.People need to know the REALITY of what its like to live with and care for another with this affliction.This book is a wonderful giveaway and a gift of gold for someone living through this.

Love Never Sleeps

A great enlightened book for those who are caregivers to patients with Alzheimer's. Very informative -