Nearly five million families deal with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia on a daily basis. They do this with little training, and often only their good intentions guide them. When Reasoning No Longer Works is the training manual these family caregivers have been searching for.Written by a Gerontologist with more than twenty years of experience, this reference gives the reader an easy to understand view of what dementia does to the brain, how it is diagnosed, and most importantly, how to deal with its effects.
Bulleted lists clearly explain:
<ul>
<li>How to avoid a catastrophic reaction</li>
<li>Specific approaches for aggressive behavior</li>
<li>How to deal with disruptive behaviors</li>
<li>Ways to diminish wandering</li>
<li>What to do when a wanderer is missing</li>
<li>When to look for outside help</li>
</ul>
You'll also follow the story of Lou and Rose, a couple who share their lives with Alzheimer's disease. Together, they find the answers to questions caregivers and victims are sometimes afraid to ask.
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When Reasoning No Longer Works: A Practical Guide for Caregivers Dealing with Dementia & Alzheimer's Care

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Smits, Angel

Mental Health

Parker Hayden Media

The life of a 6th grader is pretty standard. You know, go to class. Do your homework. Watch a Starfield patch growing on the soccer field. Avoid the Tasting Tulip growing in the girl’s bathroom. Yep. The Wishing World is leaking into Earth, and I’m the reason. It’s not like I wanted to rip a hole in the sky last year. It just…you know…happened. I thought the Wishing World would return to normal after I left, but obviously I was wrong. That’s happening a lot lately. Oh, and the Ink King’s back. Did I mention? Remember before, when he stole my parents and wouldn’t give them back? Now he’s stolen my best friends, turned them into creeper-deeper Doolivanti wizards, and sent them after me like a pack of wolves. I’m sorry, but where did he get the power to do that? Yeah. I need to find that out. Like, right now. And I tried to get my friend Gruffy to help me, but no. Gruffy got captured. And Pip. And my brother. EVERYbody got captured, except me, Squeak, and our new friend, Princess Split-Personality. Okay, so she’s the Fire Princess, but she is literally two people, and you never know which one is going to pop out. The Ink King really has the upper hand this time. I’ve got to beat him, but how do I do that with broken powers that rip the sky? All I have to help me is a riddle: Be the Loremaster. What does that even mean? I don’t know, but I’m going to figure it out. I have to, or I’ll never see my brother or my friends again.

Loremaster (The Wishing World)

Children's Books

Fahnestock, Todd

Science Fiction & Fantasy

An inept sheriff who can’t shoot, ride or spit worth a damn...Facing the bankruptcy of the family business, J. Barrett Callan accepts his great-great grandfather’s offer to exchange places in time in hopes he can change his future by fixing the past. But if anything, his troubles compound when he ends up in the mining town of Margin, Colorado as an inept sheriff who can’t shoot, ride or spit worth a damn. There he encounters a “spinster” who serves as the local schoolmarm because the townspeople would never accept her as the doctor she’s trained to be. Will they be able to find a love while working together to keep Margin safe from rampaging miners, crooked investors and a boozy visitor from the future far beyond the 21st century? If you love Doctor Who, Quantum Leap and the Back to the Future trilogy, you'll love A Margin in Time. “…the first book I’ve read in years that I wish I’d written.” —Sherilynn Kenyon, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Like the delightful TV series, Quantum Leap, A Margin in Time places a modern man in a perplexing situation and as we sit back and watch the fireworks, the love and laughter unfurl...Combining concepts culled from the finest in fantasy (from Star Trek to Back to the Future and H.G. Wells) she brings readers a true gem of a tale.” —RT Book Reviews “Ms. Hayden ingeniously combines time travel with a tongue-in-cheek dime-western plot...an outrageously entertaining book.” —Paperback Forum “Fireworks of the most delightful kind! Laura Hayden has written a charmer!” —Rosalyn Alsobrook, bestselling author of Beyond Forever “Clever, witty, with endearing characters and a town peopled with genuine eccentrics...” —GEnie Romance Exchange Reviewer

A Margin in Time

Romance

Hayden, Laura

Time Travel

Forty-eight years after a catastrophic solar event destroys all life and technology on the planet’s surface, nineteen-year-old Reid Landers lives in the old NORAD facility deep inside Cheyenne Mountain with other descendants of Originals, barely subsisting on canned food and rats. For all they know they are the last hundred souls on Earth...until Reid meets the first stranger he has ever seen, a stranger with a grown apple. This catapults him on a journey to California to find seeds for his people, an adventure fraught with skin-carving pirates, twisted missionaries, and mercenaries on Rollerblades. Even if Reid can outwit the despot leader of “Lost" Angeles and resist the siren’s song of a beautiful con artist, there may not be any seeds left to find. And his people—including the woman he secretly loves—might not take him back.

Seeds: a post-apocalytic adventure

Mandeville, Chris

Science Fiction

A brooding demigod. A young magician. A race to restore magic to the lands. Mirolah wants a quiet life, but the villagers in her town will kill her if they discover the truth. She is a magical threadweaver, the first to surface in three hundred years. Long bereft of magic, the human lands are dying. Humans are devolving, and their culture is crumbling. Their legendary protector, the demigod Wildmane, has given up on them. When a monster sent for Mirolah slays her adopted sister instead, Mirolah is pulled into a quest to bring Wildmane out of his self-imposed exile and restore magic to the lands. Undead threadweavers rise to stop her and cage Wildmane. To beat them, she must learn more about herself and threadweaving than she thought possible, more than the greatest threadweavers of a bygone age. And she must do it quickly…

Wildmane (Threadweavers)

Fantasy

All's fair with Dogwood's matchmaking dog. So who will be Jack's soulmate?When Dyan Evans comes back to Dogwood, Colorado after inheriting Dogwood Realty from her grandparents, she plans to keep her distance from Jack Donavon, an officer in the Dogwood Police Department. When they broke up nine years ago, he left an empty hole in her heart no other man has been able to fill. Unfortunately, a puppy leads her right to Jack...who is now engaged to the sweetest woman in Dogwood. The only thing Dyan can do is keep as far away from Jack as possible.Jack never forgot Dyan, and can't deny the attraction for her is as strong as ever, but he would never betray his fiancée. He wrestles with his feelings for Dyan, but fate pushes her in his path almost daily, as Dyan attracts funny, oddball situations in her profession, and Jack is forced to deal with them. If it were any other woman, Jack would suspect conspiracy, but even his fiancée agrees there's no subterfuge.Jack finds himself torn between two wonderful women and he doesn't know what to do. Will Jack and Dyan be able to find their way back to each other without breaking his fiancée's heart in the process?Love at First Bark is a stand-alone sweet romance, third in the Dogwood series. If you like reading about second chances, matchmaking dogs, and humorous situations, you'll love this book.

Love at First Bark: A Dogwood Sweet Romance

Willhoff, Jude

Contemporary

The rise of a fire god. A journey into the heart of magic. A mystery that could destroy the lands The Phantom War is over, but new dangers plague the Thiaran Empire. An imprisoned fire god is invading the bodies of Thiara's citizens one-by-one. The empress tightens her grip on Grei, desperate to control her subjects and solidify her rule. And Grei's power is faltering. Armed only with his broken magic and the help of an injured Ringblade assassin, Grei must escape the empress, travel to the north to contain the fire god, and unravel the secrets of a centuries-old conflict. And at the heart of the mystery lies his friend, Blevins, a enigmatic drunk who cannot seem to die... The Undying Man is the second book in The Whisper Prince epic fantasy series. If you like epic fantasy, detailed world-building, and strong female characters, you'll love Todd Fahnestock's latest series. Buy the first book in the series, Fairmist, to join the adventure today

The Undying Man (The Whisper Prince)

LARGE PRINT EDITION
Nearly five million families deal with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia on a daily basis. They do this with little training, and often only their good intentions guide them. When Reasoning No Longer Works is the training manual these family caregivers have been searching for.Written by a Gerontologist with more than twenty years of experience, this reference gives the reader an easy to understand view of what dementia does to the brain, how it is diagnosed, and most importantly, how to deal with its effects.
Bulleted lists clearly explain:
<ul>
<li>How to avoid a catastrophic reaction</li>
<li>Specific approaches for aggressive behavior</li>
<li>How to deal with disruptive behaviors</li>
<li>Ways to diminish wandering</li>
<li>What to do when a wanderer is missing</li>
<li>When to look for outside help</li>
</ul>
You'll also follow the story of Lou and Rose, a couple who share their lives with Alzheimer's disease. Together, they find the answers to questions caregivers and victims are sometimes afraid to ask.

When Reasoning No Longer Works: A Practical Guide for Caregivers Dealing With Dementia & Alzheimer's Care

A renowned tracker throughout the galaxy, Raven reluctantly agrees to help Beckett MacLeod find his runaway nine-year-old daughter, even though he’s from a backward planet that denies the advances of technology. The task turns out to be much more trouble than she expected. In addition to almost destroying her spaceship, fighting privateers, and being forced to seek the one man she never wanted to encounter again, Raven finds herself drawn to Beckett and his primitive mindset. If she isn’t careful, they’ll all end up dead.Originally published by Dorchester Publishing

Sword of MacLeod: A Futuristic Romance (The Scanner Universe)

Fox, Karen

Paranormal

More than ten million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s disease, and their spouses are most likely to be their primary caregivers. The transition from spouse to caregiver is not an easy one, often causing frustration, resentment, sadness, fear, and concern about the future. A lot has been written about caring for the Parkinson’s patient, but their caregivers need a book to help them cope with the enormous life changes that Parkinson’s brings to a relationship. This book does that. Barbara Davis’s husband had Parkinson’s for over twenty years. She wrote this book after more than two decades of personal experience because she wanted to chronicle the serious matters that most Parkinson's partners don’t like to talk about publicly, and the feelings and frustrations they are embarrassed to share. By discussing these challenges openly and honestly, this unique book seeks to help others in ways that are not otherwise easily accessible, and to let them know that they are not alone in dealing with the negative life impacts of Parkinson's Disease. Advice from a Parkinson’s Wife is realistic and enlightening, providing stories and advice from someone who’s been there, along with practical suggestions for how to cope with the changes caregivers experience. Among the topics covered in the book are: •How your marriage changes and what caregiving does to you•How to handle doctor visits•What to do about falls, clinging, masks, and variability•Handling guilt and other emotions •Suggestions for practical things you can do to make things easierBeing a caregiver is tough, but with the wisdom, compassion, and advice in this book, the hope is that you can find moments when you can experience something approaching happiness, pleasure, and maybe even joy.

Advice from a Parkinson's Wife: 20 Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Medical Books

Davis, Barbara Sheklin

Nursing

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