BIBLIOGRAPHY for
ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS

Emotional Care for the Alzheimer Patient

Medical Alerts for Alzheimer's Disease

Legal Services needed upon Diagnosis of Disease

101 Things to do with a Person with Alzheimers

Caring for the Caregiver

Services available to Families of Patients with Memory Loss


Communicating with Alzheimer's Patient

Communication HInts

This is a list of books that may be helpful to the caregiver.  Reading these may give one a better understanding of the disease and the toll it may take on the Alzheimer patients and
the families who love them.  

1.     The 36 Hour Day   By:  Nancy L Mace, M. A. - Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H.

2.     Alzheimer’s Early Stage   By: Daniel Kuhn, MSW

3.     Living In The Labyrinth   By: Diana Friel McGowan

4.     Speaking Our Minds   By: Lisa Snyder, LCSW

5.     The Forgetting   By: David Shenk

6.     Catch A Falling Star – Living with Alzheimer’s   By: Betty Baker Spohr with Jean Valens Bullard

7.     The Non-Chew Cook Book   By: J. Randy Wilson

8.     A Dignified Life -The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care By Virginia Bell, M.S.W. & David Troxel, M.P.H.

9.     Alzheimer’s: a Broken Brain   By: Mark Rikard

10. There’s Still A Person In There   By: Michael Castleman, Delores Gallagher, and Matthew Naythons

11. Grandpa Doesn’t Know It’s Me   By:  Donna Guthrie

      13. Margie and Me: An Enduring Love Affair  By: Ed Kanewski

      14. A Safe Place for Mama    By: Gladys Kepnew White

     15. A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease – 300 tips    By: Patricia Callone

     16. Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s    By: Robert Butler, MD

     17. Striped Shirts and Flowered Pants   By: Barbara Schnurbush

     18. Mom’s Okay, She Just Forgets   By: Evelyn McLay and Ellen P. Young

     19. Don’t Eat The Elephants   By: Patricia H. Miller

     20. A Curious Kind of Widow   By: Ann Davidson

     21. The Pleasure Was Mine   By: Tommy Hays

     22. Gentlecare  By: Moyra Jones

     23. Memory Power   By: Scott Hagwood

                                                                                                                                                                                     3/2007