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These letters are your guide, your comfort, and your reminder that you’re never alone on this journey. They’ll meet you in the hardest moments, offering the kind of hope and help only a fellow caregiver can provide. Real advice from real people — because no one knows caregiving better.

This book explores Alzheimer’s disease through the intertwined perspectives of a patient and her devoted caregiver, offering a deeply personal look at the emotional, physical, and mental challenges they face. From the first signs of memory loss to the final days of care, listeners are taken on a raw and honest journey through the daily struggles, heartbreaks, and small victories of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s.

New Possibilities in Memory Care: The Silverado Story is a wonderful epic of the journey of two men to make a difference in the lives of older individuals with memory-impairment. Loren Shook and Stephen Winner resolved to build care communities that would preserve the human spirit and dignity of the community residents. The dream took shape in the form of Silverado with an insistence on compassionate, excellent care that Silverado provides. Whether in a living community, at home, or in hospice, Silverado strives to make the human journey to the end of life a dignified and fulfilling one.

It started with strange behavior—a hostile outburst here, a peculiar lapse of memory there. Then it became violent. The beautiful, vivacious Carmen Moffett was behaving in ways her husband Pat could not understand. Their marriage had been a long love affair. Together, they raised five beautiful children in Great Neck, New York, and were looking forward to planning their retirement together. Then came the outbursts, both verbal and physical, and the forgetting.

Our journey started about ten years ago. Today, my mom is dying a slow, dark, humiliating, and despicable death. Her brain is disintegrating before my eyes. The eyes that remember seeing her for the first time when I was three years old, sitting on the floor playing at her feet while she ironed. The day I begin to write this, my mom, for the first time, does not know who I am. I’m no longer her daughter, Jenny. Today, in her utterly confused mind, I am Betty, her non-existent sister. But it’s okay because she still told me she loved me, and for today, that’s good enough.

Are you ready to journey around the globe without leaving the comfort of your home? The desire for new experiences and adventures doesn't fade as we age, but our ability to venture far and wide might. Whether you're looking to relive cherished memories or explore corners of the world that have always piqued your curiosity, Short and Uplifting Stories for Seniors: Explore the Globe from Home offers a treasure trove of adventures right at your fingertips.

This groundbreaking anthology presents 40 narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer’s and other dementias on patients, as well as their caregivers and family. Deeply personal, recounting the wrenching course of a disease that kills a loved one twice - first they forget who they are, and then the body succumbs - these stories also show how witnessing the disease and caring for someone with it can be powerfully transformative, calling forth amazing strength and grace.

We all have a story. As each of us walks this journey in life, there are defining moments that shape us and make us who we are. Our stories are unique. No one has the same story to tell. Your story defines the individual you are. This book is for those who are caregivers to someone with dementia.