Not Right in the Head
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Not Right in the Head

How One Family Facing Alzheimer's Discovered Laughter May Just Be the Best Medicine

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eBook - ePub

Not Right in the Head

How One Family Facing Alzheimer's Discovered Laughter May Just Be the Best Medicine

About this book

A light-hearted, heart-warming account of how one family faced Alzheimer's and how the almost comical events within the secure walls of the nursing home made them realize that humor was the only way through. Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like her own mother—Michelle's grandmother—they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did ultimately succumb to the disease, the choice to put her in a nursing home became the only option. During the next six years, Michelle, a well-known television producer, visited her mum often while her dad kept a daily vigil in the nursing home. What Michelle and her family discovered throughout these challenging times was that allowing themselves to see the funny side of the weird and wonderful things they witnessed while visiting her mum made a difficult journey just that little bit easier. This memoir is a light-hearted but moving account of Michelle's experience with her mum's dementia—giving us an insight in how to cope compassionately, effectively, and lastingly with a disease that affects almost 5.4 million Americans alone.

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Information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781952534126
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. CONTENTS
  5. 1 MRS PITT'S GONE SHOPPING
  6. 2 LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
  7. 3 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE ALZHEIMER'S
  8. 4 TESTING THE WATERS
  9. 5 SOMEBODY HIDE THE KNIVES
  10. 6 EVERYTHING MUST GO!
  11. 7 LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
  12. 8 HOPELESSLY DEVOTED
  13. 9 THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
  14. 10 LET THE GAMES BEGIN
  15. 11 CLOTHING OPTIONAL
  16. 12 TAKE MY WIFE
  17. 13 BABY TALK
  18. 14 TAKE ME BACK
  19. 15 ANDRÉ, ANDRÉ, ANDRÉ
  20. 16 TO BE BRUTALLY HONEST
  21. 17 ALL ABOARD
  22. 18 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT
  23. 19 SIGNS—SEALED AND DELIVERED
  24. 20 THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
  25. 21 TIMING IS EVERYTHING
  26. 22 IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS
  27. 23 ONE LAST TIME
  28. 24 THE FINAL CURTAIN
  29. 25 LIFE GOES ON
  30. HELPFUL WEBSITES AND ORGANISATIONS
  31. SELF-ADMINISTERED GEROCOGNITIVE EXAM
  32. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  33. SATIAMIME TEST (SELF-ADMINISTERED, TOTALLY INCONCLUSIVE AND MILDLY IRRELEVANT MEMORY EXAM)