senior Rage--or--Take My Father ......

senior Rage--or--Take My Father ... Please! in what manner to Survive Caring for Aging Parents.

Jacqueline Marcell 2001 366 pp $1995 paperback

This volume is not a nursing text; however, give suck tos and members of the general public will learn a fate by reading it. Jacqueline Marcell wrote this volume after her life-changing experience of finding precise care for her aging parents. From a life as a professional photographer, body professor, and television executive, she became a dedicated advocate for olden care awareness and reform. I knew I was in for an interesting read when I make opened the cover and found no fewer than six pages of endorsements from 42 diverse professionals.

After losing her piece of work as a television executive, the author replyed home to see to the care of her mother who had been ill. upon her arrival, it immediately became apparent that her father's mental health and deterioration from Alzheimer's disease was a more serious issue that urgencyed immediate intervention. She spent the nearest nine months securing a sale environment for the couple her parents so that they could remain together and be as independent as possible in their concede home. Her journey provides an amazing story.

Marcell betrays a sometimes difficult but always courageous tale of her father's violent outbreaks and his need to dominate his wife. She twitchs from her experience in the entertainment industry, her like of vintage and new movies, and her be enamoured of of television to relate to her situation. As an example, she assigns to her father as "gentle Jekyll" when he is sweet and pleasant and as "Hyde the Hun" when he is in an especially violent state of mind. She carries this particular comparison completely through the book, interlacing it with different theme strains and characters or sayings that are similar to the points she wants to make. This technique detains a very difficult situation light and easy to read about.

The final chapter is a summary of the information that the author originate useful in caring for her father; this is an invaluable addition to the part She gives an explanation of behavior modification guidelines, including what to do when an older somebody is displaying positive behavior or negative behavior. She dedicates single in kind section to the most many times asked questions concerning how to handle an older lov common The author also provides information specific to the warning signs, diagnosis, and stages of Alzheimer's disease and startling statistics about the disease.

Rodman Shankle, MD M former medical director at the University of California Irvine Alzheimer's Center Irvine, Calif, wrote an addendum that helps explain the turmoil that Marcell went by the agency of in finding the proper diagnosis and care for her father. Dr Shankle provides a physician's guide to treating aggression in dementia. This is a valuable resource for anyone caring for a lov common who exhibits aggressive behavior.

I commend this book to everyone. Marcell rehearses a great story. She incorporates humor into a devastating situation and gives valuable information to anyone who may now be caring for an older adult or who may ne to care for an older lov united in the future.

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