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The 36-Hour Day : A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
by Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins
Alzheimer's: The Answers You Need by Helen B. Davies and Michael P. Jensen
Alzheimer's Early Stages: First Steps for Family, Friends, and Caregivers by Daniel Kuhn, David A., Md. Bennett
Talking to Alzheimer's: Simple Ways to Connect When You Visit with a Family Member or Friend by Claudia J. Strauss
Alzheimer's: The Caregivers Guide and Sourcebook by Howard Gruetzner
Alzheimer's Disease: Caregivers Speak Out: a guide to understanding, caring and coping by Pam Haisman
The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's Proofing Your Home by Mark L. Warner
Courage for Those Who Care by Martha O. Adams
Decoding Darkness: the search for the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease by Rudolph E. Tanzi and Ann B. Parson
The Forgetting-Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic by David Shenk
Gentlecare: changing the experience of Alzheimer's disease in a positive way by Moyra Jones
Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, artificial feeding, comfort measures only, and the elderly patient by Hank Dunn
Learning to Speak Alzheimer's: a groundbreaking approach for everyone dealing with the disease by JoAnne Koenig Coste
Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's Disease, Ronald Peterson, M.D., Editor in Chief
Partial View: an Alzheimer's journal text by Cary Smith Hendersen, edited by Jackie Hendersen Main, Ruth D. Hendersen and Nancy Andrews
Speaking Our Minds: personal reflections from individuals with Alzheimer's by Lisa Snyder
Your Name is Hughes Hannibal Shanks: A Caregivers Guide to Alzheimer's by Lela Knox Shanks
Understanding Difficult Behaviors: some practical suggestions for coping with Alzheimer's disease and related illnesses by Anne Robinson, Beth Spencer and Laurie White
Alzheimer's Disease: Cause(s), Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care by Zaven S Khachaturian and Teresa S. Radebaugh
