Name: Staring at Dementia: Lessons From Mother (en Inglés)
SKU: 53844449
Price: 30.95 USD
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Author: Akin, Danny E.
ISBN: 9781635281385

portada Staring at Dementia: Lessons From Mother (en Inglés)

Staring at Dementia: Lessons From Mother (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Danny E. Akin

Editorial

Nurturing Faith

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

166

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x0.9 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781635281385

Categorías

Memorias

Staring at Dementia: Lessons From Mother (en Inglés)

Danny E. Akin (Autor) · Nurturing Faith · Tapa Blanda

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Staring at Dementia is a tender journal recollection of the author's time spent with his mother during the last decade of her life. Danny E. Akin journals their many visits together in an attempt to capture and record the rapid and extreme changes Mother experiences as she transitions over the years from an independent living apartment to a Personal Care setting and finally to Memory Care. The journal is filled with daily events, Mother's pronouncements, family tales, and the author's personal reflections on the toll dementia takes on both the patient and the caregiver. He shares with his audience the successes and failures of maintaining a close relationship with an elderly family member in decline. Over time, Akin and his mother switch roles, with Akin becoming the parent and Mother the child. Writing about this slow change helps the author make sense of the stressful episodes and gives him a sense of purpose, even as he struggles to make sense of difficult situations and decisions. "As I look back and remember my feelings of frustration, there are times when I regret my anger-even when I tried to see the humor. Wise advice from other writers prompted me to look for the self, the person that remained of the mother I loved. Often, I found it in her kindness and even, at times, in her words." The author's goals for this book is to share the legacy of Mother, a woman who, without fame, wealth, or status, who deeply influenced the lives of her sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, extended family, church, neighbors, friends, and retirement home staff. It is also his hope that the book will give others who must travel this road some hope, practical advice, a feeling of camaraderie with fellow caregivers, humor, and the encouragement to write down the stories of their parents before the stories are lost forever.