The Alzheimer’s Action Plan: The Experts’ Guide to the Best Diagnosis and Treatment for Memory Problems
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Is it really Alzheimer’s? How to find out and intervene early to maintain the highest quality of life
“Most of us will either get Alzheimer’s or care for a loved one who has. This action plan can empower you to make a difference.”—Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
What would you do if your mother was having memory problems?
Alzheimer’s is a disease affecting more than five million Americans, with a new diagnosis being made every seventy-two seconds. Millions more are worried or at risk due to mild memory loss or family history. Although experts agree that early diagnosis and treatment are essential, many people with memory loss and their families—and even their doctors—don’t know where to turn for authoritative, state-of-the-art advice and answers to all of their questions.
Now, combining the insights of a world-class physician and an award-winning social worker, this groundbreaking book tells you everything you need to know, including:
· The best tests to determine if this is—or is not—Alzheimer’s disease
· The most (and least) effective medical treatments
· Coping with behavioral and emotional changes through the early and middle stages
· Gaining access to the latest clinical trials
· Understanding the future of Alzheimer’s
Clear, compassionate, and empowering, The Alzheimer’s Action Plan is the first book that anyone dealing with mild memory loss or early Alzheimer’s must-read in order to preserve the highest possible quality of life for as long as possible.
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This book is an excellent book - Very happy to see another comprehensive book addressing this terrible disease. We need all the knowledge we can get to try and reduce what could be the worse illness we may ever see.
Alzheimer’s disease is a serious disease not just for the patient, the caregiver, but also the economy.
Let’s start preventing disease instead of trying to cover up symptoms after-the-fact. We have a solution - lets all step up to the plate stop fooling ourselves and use the right tools not the old broken out of date ones before its too late. EXCELLENT BOOK.
I also recommend the book THE APO E GENE DIET: By Integrative Medicine Fellow - Pamela McDonald - A Breakthrough in Changing Cholesterol, Weight, Heart and Alzheimer’s Using the Body’s Own Genes - this book provides an Integrative Medicine approach to Alzheimer’s, heart disease and chronic illness prevention. This approach is what the new patient wants today - DISEASE PREVENTION - NOT Band-Aids for their symptoms.
Rating: 5 / 5
All the reviews above I would repeat; however, I was disappointed that the book did not address the constellation of problems that can affect the elderly Alzheimer’s patient. Many of the suggestions given in the book would not work for my mom, who was nearly blind, wore hearing aids, and had COPD severe enough to limit her mobility.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Alzheimer’s Action Plan is reader friendly. Made for the caregiver or anyone who is interested in Alzheimer’s/Dementia. I found it an easy read, very informative in all areas of dementia. The beginning takes you through, `Could it be Alzheimer’s?’ then `what looks like, and feels like Alzheimer’s but isn’t', I found this to be very interesting, being recently diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, (hypothyroidism foggy brain)
I had been a caregiver for fourteen years to my dearest friend with Alzheimer’s, and know what this disease does, from diagnose to ending death. I’ve worked with Alzheimer’s victims, and their caregivers, and know how helpful this book would be to anyone around the disease.
This book takes your through medications, clinical trials, stages of the disease, and much more. It is a caregiver’s handbook.I have never come across a book that is so easy to understand, for the professional and non-professional. It’s about time something like this has come out. I’m sure this will help a lot of people. Just look at some of the captioned reviews.
We need more like this
Just in time
The Alzheimer’s action plan
Excellent Resource
Immediately useful
Excellent for caregivers
Great guide to Alzheimer’s cargiving
A fabulous resource
Fantastic for an aging family
Rating: 5 / 5
This is an excellent current guide for caregivers and children of persons with Alzheimer’s disease. But, if you are interested in non-Alzheimer’s memory problems, you will need another source. The subtitle led me to believe the book would have more general coverage in that area. But the authors do discuss family support, intervention and medical treatements. Taking care of one’s self (diet, exercise both aerobic and anaerobic, and careful management of high blood pressure, diabetis, and cholesterol) might delay or slow the progress of the disease. A very useful list of resources with websites is appended. A wise read for persons with interest in this medical arena.
Rating: 4 / 5
Reading this book helped me spot a drug that my father should not have been taking, and the doctor I queried about it immediately took my Dad off that drug. The book is helping me recognize my Dad’s symptoms and stages and is useful for its suggestions of coping strategies, and as other members of my family read this book, it is providing a shared vocabulary that helps us talk to each other. My one complaint is that the book stops after the “mid-stage” of Alzheimers; I need to learn more about what comes after that. But it is a relief to get up-to-date information about beginning and mid-stages of Alzheimer’s.
Rating: 5 / 5