| January is Alzheimer Awareness Month | |
| What is Alzheimer’s Disease? | |
| Alzheimer’s is a progressive, degenerative disease that destroys vital nerve cells in the brain. It causes memory loss, impairs judgment and reasoning, and diminishes a person’s ability to communicate. Over time, Alzheimer’s makes it impossible for those suffering from it to take care of themselves. While this disease is more common later in life, it is not a normal part of aging. | |
| The “Forget Me Not” Flower | |
| The Alzheimer Society uses the Forget Me Not flower to symbolize memory loss, one of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. This logo also reminds us not to forget the people affected by the disease - those who have been diagnosed with it, and those who care for them. | |
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| Alzheimer’s Facts | |
| • Half a million Canadians have Alzheimer’s
disease. • 71,000 of them are under age 65. • 1 in 11 Canadians over the age of 65 currently has Alzheimer’s. • Number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to more than double, reaching 1.1 million Canadians within 25 years. • Women represent 72% of all cases of the Alzheimer’s disease. • The hours of care by unpaid family members are expected to reach 756 million hours by 2038. |
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| For more information: http://www.alzheimer.ca/english/index.php |
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| A selection of sources in our library | |
| Fiction | |
| You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin |
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| Summer Shift by Lynn Kiele Bonasia |
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| Bill Warrington's
Last Chance by James King |
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| Still Alice by Lisa Genova |
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| Non-Fiction | |
| The Alzheimer's
Action Plan by P. Murali Doraiswamy and Lisa P. Gwyther |
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| The Alzheimer's
Answer by Marwan Noel Sabbagh |
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| The Comfort of Home
for Alzheimer's Disease by Maria M. Meyer, Mary S. Mittelman, Cynthia Epstein, and Paul Derr |
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| The Myth of Alzheimer's by Peter J. Whitehouse with Daniel George |
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| Biographies | |
| Enter Mourning:
a Memoir on Death, Dementia and Coming Home by Heather Menzies |
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| Jan's Story: Love
Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer's by Barry Petersen and Jan Chorlton Petersen |
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| Keeper: One House,
Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies |
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| Mother in the Middle
by Sybil Lockhart |
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