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  • A Care Giver's Journal
  • By: Robert Tell
  • Narrated by: John Eastman
  • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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By: Robert Tell
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For 15 years, Robert Tell was his widowed Mom's caregiver as her mind and personality disappeared into the fog of dementia. He tells the tale with compassion and humor in this full length, fast moving memoir. His lesson: Caregiver burnout can be helped.

Laugh and cry with him as he takes away her car keys, helps her move into tiny quarters with all her furniture, tries to undo mismanagement of her finances, and refuses to promise never to put her into a nursing home. One reviewer called it "a Neil Simon laugh and cry scenario."

If you are watching your loved one vanish into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), Dementia Diary will lift your spirits.

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Made me feel less alone

If you could sum up Dementia Diary in three words, what would they be?

This book gave a humorous view of a disease which many family members struggle with. I could empathise with the Author and felt less alone in my own situation with my mother.

If you are looking for factual information on dementia then this probably isn't the book for you. If you are looking for some understanding of how other carers manage or just a knowing that your family member's symptoms are the same as others out there then this is a book for you.

I feel this book helped me accept some of the symptoms my mother exhibited and accept her disease.

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Excellent insight into dementia

I work as an administrator in mental health and dementia and wanted to understand our residents journeys somewhat. This book has been spot on a very helpful.

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