My two Elaines : : Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver

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Call Number: 921 Schreiber, Martin , Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Political Figures / Schreiber, Martin J.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Foreword / by Mark Johnson -- Preface -- Introduction -- When Marty met Elaine -- Part 1 Learning about Alzheimer's disease. Diagnosis -- Danger on the trail : how Alzheimer's can harm your health -- Isolation -- Irrational irritability -- Part 2 Coping with Alzheimer's disease. Reaching for a lifeline -- Being a real man -- Therapeutic fibbing : entering her reality -- Living in the now -- Part 3 Surviving Alzheimer's disease. Challenges -- What surviving looks like -- "If Alzheimer's could speak" / by Tara Reed -- Afterword / by Tom Hlavacek -- Appendix A: Q&A conversations from the road -- Appendix B: Q&A between Marty and Dr. Michelle Braun.
In My Two Elaines, author Marty Schreiber, former governor of Wisconsin, watches his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman he fell in love with in high school, and who diligently supported his political career, to the Elaine who knows she is declining and can't remember how to cook a meal, and finally to the Elaine who no longer recognizes Marty or their children.

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