![]() He often forgot appointments or what he’d just said, but he remembered this important mission. Grim and businesslike, he was ready to go to the funeral home to make arrangements. We heard the stairs creak as Dad came down - dressed in a suit. On the morning after my mother died, after a very short illness, in a hospital bed placed by home hospice in the living room of the house where I grew up, my four siblings and I sat together in the kitchen, our dumbfounded shock still raw. Among the most wrenching situations: When someone with dementia believes a friend or family member who has died-or in Paula’s father’s case, a spouse-is still alive. The book features the “Why-This, Try-This” approach to common challenges. The following is an excerpt from Surviving Alzheimer’s Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers, now in an expanded 2 nd edition.
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