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Book request help...
Okay, so I'm having trouble getting my parents (and aunt and uncle) to realize that a lot of the delusions my grandmother is having may in fact be part and parcel of the Alzheimer's disease. My aunt is pretty much convinced that she doesn't really have AD and instead is still just suffering from the psychotic break.
Only problem, they're not incredibly web savvy so the web pages I have emailed in the past haven't really made much of a difference (or rather, they didn't because my mom was too sick to print them out at the time and they're now buried in her inbox).
So, does anyone know of a good, basic book to introduce people to what to really expect from an alzheimer's patient rather than what we see on TV? One of the reasons my aunt is starting to question the diagnosis is that she's all "but Mother doesn't ever forget anything. She's not having memory problems" -- this even though my grandma can't remember how to work a washing mamchine whithout having to be shown every time.
Only problem, they're not incredibly web savvy so the web pages I have emailed in the past haven't really made much of a difference (or rather, they didn't because my mom was too sick to print them out at the time and they're now buried in her inbox).
So, does anyone know of a good, basic book to introduce people to what to really expect from an alzheimer's patient rather than what we see on TV? One of the reasons my aunt is starting to question the diagnosis is that she's all "but Mother doesn't ever forget anything. She's not having memory problems" -- this even though my grandma can't remember how to work a washing mamchine whithout having to be shown every time.
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we used to recommend the "Facing Alzheimers" book to familes dealing with/coping with/not accepting it... maybe it will help.
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