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Here is a book that will profoundly improve the environmental
quality of caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease at
home.
Author: Mark L. Warner
Book Review
1
A Book Review by Geri Richard Hall, Ph.D. c.,
ARNP, CNS
Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona
A Complete Guide to
Alzheimer's's--Proofing Your Home is a comprehensive
practical guide for helping in-home caregivers and health
professionals who advise them, to evaluate the home environment and
make modifications enhancing safety and function. Easy to read, the
book offers the reader numerous new ideas on every page, each with
the potential solve some small yet vexing problem. The book begins
with an overview of how to evaluate the rooms and exterior areas of
a typical home and how to formulate a plan that facilitates maximum
function for both the care-recipient and caregiver.
A strength of the book is the second
chapter. It provides a disease overview focusing on symptom
presentation and how it affects day to day function. This is
particularly helpful for the caregiver as it explains how a
symptom/behavior is represented in their home. Quotes familiar to
professionals working with families help caregivers to recognize
how this relates to their own situation. These quotes help to give
the book focus and direction, but more important, the quotes
provide a very empathetic and "human" touch and make the book
highly readable. I find this approach much more salient than
"academic approaches" to the description of dementia.
Another strength is the glossary of
terms, which is comprehensive and simple to understand. It can help
the caregiver speak with health care professionals or understand
recommendations - a problem even when the professional speaks in
the simplest possible terms. A last strength is the recommendation
of products designed for people with AD or for other purposes, but
work well for people with AD. The authors have included a shopping
guide for convenience of the reader. While this will need to be
updated every few years, it is an invaluable resource.
A Complete Guide to
Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home is a well-written thoughtful
collection of ideas for home-based caregivers. The one drawback to
the book is that it reinforces how terribly complex caring for
people with dementia can be. The comprehensive table of contents
can help caregivers sort out what they need to examine for each
problem. This is a new approach to AD care and should, in my
opinion, be an invaluable addition to the "Alzheimer's
professional's" library.
Geri Richard
Hall, Ph.D. c., ARNP, CNS
Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
Book Review
2
A Review by Beverly Bigtree Murphy, MS,
CRC,
Caregiver,
Advocate, Author
The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing
Your Home is remarkable. It is about time caregivers, of
family members with Alzheimer's disease, were offered something
more than reasons to institutionalize their people. Caregivers need
information, options, and where to access tools and resources
before they can make informed decisions about their role as
caregiver. As someone who spent 25 years designing rehabilitation
plans for the handicapped and another 10 years facing the care of
my husband Tom, who died of this disease, in his home, in 1995,
this is the first volume I have read that speaks of caregiving in
positive, life-giving terms. While it offers pragmatic, workable,
affordable solutions to caregivers, it never loses sight of the
continued humanity and needs of our family members to be regarded
and loved as part of the process. Every family facing Alzheimer's
Disease and related dementia's should have this book on hand for
reference.
Beverly Bigtree Murphy, MS,
CRC,
Caregiver, Advocate
Author of: He used to be Somebody, A Journey Into
Alzheimer's Through the Eyes of a Caregiver
Gibbs Associates
P.O. Box 706
Boulder, CO 80306-0706
$16.95 +shipping
800.792.1592
Web: http://www.csn.net/~bgibbs/alz
Book Review
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A Review by Mike
Tribby,
BOOKLIST
Loving care at home is the most desirable
situation for many Alzheimer's suffers and their families, but it
is difficult to realize. Warner's thoughtful book aims to help by
showing how to make a home more navigable, comfortable, and just
plain livable for the Alzheimer's patient. Nicely presented and
well illustrated, the book deals with rearranging and remodeling
the patient's living space clearly and concisely and also addresses
"thinking-related issues" such as keeping pets and the
misinterpretations, hallucinations, and delusions attendant on the
disease. In short, Warner strives for comprehensive coverage of the
specifics of caring for afflicted loved ones in the home. A
generous directory of relevant products and manufacturers and a
helpful glossary further distinguish this superlative resource for
home caregivers.
Mike Tribby
BOOKLIST
Book Review
4
A Review by Bob
Hoffman,
Caregiver, Web Master at the Hoffman Family Home
Page
The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing
Your Home by Mark Warner, Ageless Design. This book will
become available in June, 1998, and will be one of the most
important references that a home caregiver can have. How do you
prepare your home to protect your Loved One from wandering? How do
you manage incontinence at home? What is available to help lifting
and showering? These and many other questions are treated in detail
with specific solutions described and companies listed with their
800 numbers to obtain the solution you will need. You will find
this book invaluable. Author: Mark L. Warner, AIA,
N.C.A.R.B.
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