INSIDE ALZHEIMER'S:

How to Hear and Honor Connections
with a Person who has Dementia
by Nancy Pearce

ISBN-13: 978-0-9788299-0-2
ISBN-10: 0-9788299-0-5
LCCN: 2006909855 
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50 x 8.25
Price: $19.95
Carton Quantity: 30

Now in its second printing!

Featured in Library Journal's "Best Consumer Health Books of 2007"

Table of Contents:

1 - Introduction

2 – Intend a Connection

Gremlins
Give Your Gremlin a Coffee Break • Oh That Poor, Unfortunate Soul • Run for the Hills!!! • How Sad.  Remember How She Used to Be? • You Don’t Really Want to Mess with This, Do You? • You Really Should be More • You Can’t Do This. This is Too Hard • Pay attention to this Message: You Can’t Do This Any More!
Presentation, Presentation, Presentation
Summary
Working It Out 
Breathe it Out • The Self-Hug • Phrases That Help Us to “Let Go” • Stretch it Out

3 – Free Yourself of Opinions and Judgments

How We See Ourselves
The Need to Know or to be Right
How We See Others
A Note on Expectations
Summary
Working It Out 
Acknowledge and Celebrate Little Successes • Expand Your Repertoire of Ways to Interact With Others • What Would You Be? • “I Don’t Know”

4 – Love and Open to Being Loved

Accessing Love Through Understanding
Accessing Love Through What’s Loveable
The Common Bond • A Personality Trait • Strengths • Use Your Senses
The Healing Potential of Opening to Love
Open to Being Loved
Summary
Working It Out 
Discover the Little Things that Open the Heart • Open the Heart to Love • Open the Heart to Being Loved

5 – Silence and the Art of Being With the Person who has Dementia

The Four Tools of “Being With”
Touch • Observation as a Bridge • Encouraging the Person’s Expressions • Listening Beyond Words
Moving Beyond
Julia’s Sadness Transformed • Mr. Donahue’s Confusion Transformed • Lenora’s Fears Transformed • Mrs. Garner’s Anxiety Transformed • Gary’s Anger Transformed
Summary
Working It Out 
Experience Hands-On Treatment • Watch a Foreign Language Channel • Expand Your Awarenesses

6 – Thankfulness

Impacts of Expressing Thankfulness
He Helped Someone Feel Good • She Engaged an Important Person • She Effectively Communicated Her Experience • They Were Helpful and Useful
Summary
Working It Out 
Transform Negative Perspectives • Thankfulness Pushups • Keep a Thankfulness “Journal” 

7 – Connections at the End of Life

First: Getting Comfortable with Yourself
Participating in Decision-Making
Coming to Peace with This Life
Life Review as Spiritual Inventory • Life Review and the Role of Religion
Opening to the Expanded Field
Processing ‘Between Worlds’
Final Moments of Transition
The Timing of Death • Intuition
Summary
Working It Out 
Your Five Wishes • Do Your Own Spiritual Inventory • Write Your Own Obituary • Bring More Awareness to the Dying Process 

8 – Beyond Remembering


Chapter References

Suggested Resources

Index

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