Kassandra A. King

Getting Real About Alzheimer's: Rementia Through Engagement, Assistance, and Love Kassandra A. King

Eighteen months since the start of the garden project, a resident previously consumed by loss of his own personhood can be found watering and working among the beauty he created. His story of transformation starts this book. From there, Getting REAL About Alzheimer?s goes on to explain rementia and the glory of caregiving from the heart.

This book is about practical possibilities in caring for elderly with deminished cognitive function so they still live a meaningful life. It provides a guide for family and friends of persons with Alzheimer?s, as well as for professional caregivers. These pages contain practical solutions to widespread problems in eldercare. The author writes from direct involvement with thousands of caregivers and care receivers, and from ideas of experts that confirm a vision of possibility using the philosophy of rementia.

Getting REAL About Alzheimer?s proposes a shift away from the negative beliefs that contribute to a downward spiral of dementia. A shift is possible and you can see when it happens. The difference is huge. ?Getting REAL? references Rementia through Engagement, Assistance, and Love. Getting REAL is something you can apply each and every day.

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I am literally blown away. This book has a wonderful, gentle but clear explanatory tone of sound and experienced reasoning. Empathy, in the truest sense, is glowing from the pages. It is very lucid. It is very well written. I might also have an elevated understanding of the issues, since I worked many years in Swedish hospitals and with the elderly population. I always had a great connection with them. I am reminded of many similar, great and insightful experiences, while I am reading. The anecdotes have brought tears of joy to my eyes. I believe you have written and documented something big and altruistic with this book.

Peter Nilsson, Caregiver