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Author:

Comer, Meryl, author.

Title:

Slow dancing with a stranger : lost and found in the age of Alzheimer's / Meryl Comer.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

HarperOne,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

224 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Alzheimer's disease--Family relationships--Family relationships--Biography.
Caregivers--Biography.
Physicians--Diseases--Biography.

Contents:

Every 68 seconds -- Early signs -- A different reality -- Two uncertain worlds -- Out of reach -- A difficult patient -- Changing landscape -- Dressed in black -- We are not available right now -- Behind closed doors -- The message has been sent -- Outlasting the brain -- Repeating myself.

Summary:

A broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate shares her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, examining this devastating condition and its effects on the people who have it and those who care for them.

ISBN:

0062130854 (pbk)
9780062130853 (pbk)
006213082X (hardback)
9780062130822 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870336303

LCCN:

2014001630

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