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Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story
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by Lauren Kessler

A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, this work offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach, and offers a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.


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Previously published in HC as Dancing With Rose

One journalist?s riveting?and surprisingly hopeful? in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer?s

Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer?s. Like many children of Alzheimer?s sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother?s identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer?s are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer?s facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer?s offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.

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"An excellent book...an emotional and ruminative anchor...She leaves her readers with hope."-- San Francisco Chronicle

One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer's facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love. Previously published as Dancing With Rose.

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  • Title Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story
  • Author Lauren Kessler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Date 2008-05-27
  • ISBN 9780143113683 / 0143113682
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.36 x 0.58 in (20.42 x 13.61 x 1.47 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Alzheimer's disease - Patients - Care, Caregivers
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.196

Media reviews

' Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marriesresearch with hands-on experiences.'
The Seattle Times

' Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the disease and that's almost everyone has to read this book.'
Barbara Ehrenreich,author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch

About the author

Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker, the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, and The Nation. She directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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