Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: Books and eBooks

Addresses the challenges teenagers may face when a family member has dementia, offering valuable information and support. Features stories from young adults themselves and interviews with adults who know and care for people with dementia.

A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.

Delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. Learn whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds while others can last a lifetime. Come to appreciate the clear distinction between normal forgetting and forgetting due to Alzheimer's.

Compassionate, nonjudgmental stories of parents and children, husbands and wives, contending with dementia disorders. Illuminates the terrible pressure dementia disorders exert on our closest relationships, offering caregivers the perspective they need to be gentler with themselves.

Based on the experiences she has had caring for her husband, the wife of actor Bruce Willis provides a deeply personal and richly compassionate supportive guide that helps caregivers care for themselves while they navigate a loved one's dementia.

Provides a comprehensive overview of Alzheimer's disease from etiology and neurochemistry to diagnosis, evaluation, management, and the latest therapeutic approaches.

Presents and analyzes research on nutrition's impacts on the aging brain, on possibly-declining cognitive abilities, and on changing emotional dispositions.

Arguing that the exclusively negative portrayals of Alzheimer's are grossly inaccurate, the author draws on intensive observations of nearly 100 seniors undergoing cognitive evaluation, as well as post-diagnosis interviews with individuals experiencing late-in-life forgetfulness.

At the request of the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this book assesses the contributions of research in the social and behavioral sciences toward preventing or slowing the development of dementia and toward substantially reducing its social and economic impacts. Calls for research that addresses the causes and solutions for disparities in both developing dementia and receiving adequate treatment and support.