Keeping Mum: Caring for Someone with Dementia
Aging (social issues)
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate Leaping out of bed I found Mum clothes on over her pyjamas grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and… was going home When her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease Marianne Talbot decided she couldn t put her into a care home Instead for five years she looked after her mum in her own home For nearly three of those years she chronicled for the readers of Saga Magazine Online the fears and frustrations the love and the laughter and the tears and the traumas of caring Now in this heart warming book you too can meet Marianne Mum and the appalling Fatcat You will also find plenty of practical tips for caring for someone with dementia and on staying sane whilst doing so a resources and useful contacts section and Marianne s reflections on caring from a distance and on when caring comes to an end Written for anyone anywhere who has anything to do with dementia or with caring in reading it you will know you are not alone