Staying Connected While Letting Go: The Paradox of Alzheimer's Caregiving

Staying Connected While Letting Go: The Paradox of Alzheimer's Caregiving

Sandy Braff, Mary Rose Olenik
$16.95
Publication Date: February 7th, 2005
Publisher:
M. Evans and Company
ISBN:
9781590770689
Pages:
272
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Description

This timely book, laced with poignant stories, focuses on the emotional impact of this disease on the caregivers and offers specific coping strategies they can use to keep them emotionally sane in this chaotic time.

About the Author

Sandy Braff, M.F.T. is a licensed individual, marriage, and family therapist in private practice in San Diego. Since 1989, she has facilitated a weekly Alzheimer's Caregiver's Support Group for the San Diego Alzheimer's Association. Mary Rose Olenik participated in an N.I.H. grant studying the effects of stress on the immune system of Alzheimer's caregivers while a Staff Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. She lives in New Hampshire.