Losing Me, While Losing You
Caregivers Share Their Experiences of Supporting Friends and Family with Dementia
Published on 21. September 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-77363-484-5 (ISBN)
Description
Losing Me, While Losing You is a long-needed resource to those providing care for people living with dementia - and for those providing care to the caregivers. In this book, caregivers speak from their own experiences of caring for loved ones with dementia; they cover when they first noticed behavioural changes, what they did and how their roles changed when they received the diagnosis, how the experiences changed their perceptions of themselves, especially in cases where important ones no longer recognized them or their, often long-standing, relationships. The caregivers also talked about what resources, if any, were available to support them through the caregiving journey and what recommendations they would make to government policymakers and to others in similar situations. This book is unique in that it documents the personal lived experience of loss which family, friends and caregivers go through as their roles, expectations and images of self are changed throughout the caregiving process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77363-484-5 (9781773634845)
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Persons
Jeanette Auger is a professor emeritus of sociology at Acadia University, where she taught full-time for more than forty years and still teaches two online courses. She has written or co-authored nine books, most in the field of gerontology/aging and queer studies. As well as her teaching and research experience, she has also worked in a variety of capacities as a community development researcher and volunteer, specifically in organizations which provide services and programs to older people and their important ones. She was one of the founders of the Valley Hospice Society and chaired the board of a multi-complex seniors facility in the Annapolis Valley. Her work is intended to assist older people and those who are dying because her philosophy is that we all study and try to assist in our own aging.
Diane Tedford-Litle is a women's activist and former palliative care volunteer with the Victorian Order of Nurses in Nova Scotia. She has volunteered with a number of organizations including the Seniors Network, the Hospice Consultation Committee and the Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia.
Brenda Wallace-Allen is an instructor at Nova Scotia Community College.
Janice Keefe is a professor of Family Studies and Gerontology, Director NS Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University
Diane Tedford-Litle is a women's activist and former palliative care volunteer with the Victorian Order of Nurses in Nova Scotia. She has volunteered with a number of organizations including the Seniors Network, the Hospice Consultation Committee and the Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia.
Brenda Wallace-Allen is an instructor at Nova Scotia Community College.
Janice Keefe is a professor of Family Studies and Gerontology, Director NS Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University
Content
: Introduction
: Methodology
: Relations with people with Dementia
: Caregiver Strategies
: Conclusion
: Methodology
: Relations with people with Dementia
: Caregiver Strategies
: Conclusion