Thank you dear reader for this kind & generous review of Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, & the Brain, the #memoir I wrote with #UCSF #neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller in honor of my father who died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's. For people interested in reading other books about #dementia, I would recommend #DashaKiper's Travelers to Unimaginable Lands, #SandeepJauhar's My Father's Brain, & #AmyBloom's In Love.

#AlzheimersAwareness Month
#EndAlz
#Caregivers
#Grief

"I buy a stick of lipstick and a small tube of hand cream." - AMY BLOOM, Ends of the Earth, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NationalLipstickDay #AmyBloom

Today is the last day of #Alzheimer's & #Brain Awareness month. If you want to read about #dementia, consider #SandeepJauhar's My Father's Brain, #DashaKiper's Traveler's to Unimaginable Lands, #AmyBloom's In Love. Finding the Right Words, my #memoir, written w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, is about my father's #early-onset Alzheimers. We wrote it to share info. about #neurology, the challenges of #caregiving, & how brutal the #grief can be.

Remembering my dad today and everyday.
#EndAlz

Today is the last day of #Alzheimer's & #Brain Awareness month. If you want to read about #dementia, consider #SandeepJauhar's My Father's Brain, #DashaKiper's Traveler's to Unimaginable Lands, #AmyBloom's In Love. My #memoir, written w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, is about my father's #early-onset Alzheimers. We wrote it to share info. about #neurology, the challenges of #caregiving, & how brutal the #grief can be. If you feel alone, these books may help. #EndAlz

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"I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen." — Amy Bloom — — — #AmyBloom #quote #quotes #lonely #coffee #comfortable #happy #satisfied #slippers #home #safe
@IntentionallyBLANK. I am so sorry to hear about this incredibly difficult/painful/lengthy situation. I hear you about a care facility. If we are wise, we communicate to the people we love what we want. I recently read several books that touch upon different options. In case you're interested, there is #AmyBloom's In Love, #SandeepJauhar's My Father's Brain, #DashaKiper's Travelers to Unimaginable Lands. I also wrote a #memoir w/ #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's dementia.
#EndAlz

Having just read several recent #books/#memoirs about #Alzheimer's, I recommend #AmyBloom's, #DashaKiper's, and #SandeepJauhar's. Each tells the story of loves and losses (to borrow from Bloom's subtitle) in different and powerful ways.

#EndAlz
#AlzheimersAwarenessMonth
#NationalCaregiversMonth

Gratitude to #AmyBloom for writing this powerful #memoir.

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Exit Strategy

Amy Bloom tells the story of her husband, Brian, getting Alzheimer's and wanting assisted suicide. Her search to find a way to do that led her to Dignitas, in Switzerland. Hear this intimate and frank account of the experience they go through, excerpted from her book, IN LOVE.

#dementia #alzheimer #endoflife #maid #AmyBloom #inlove #suicide #assistedsuicide #dignitas #iraGlass #thisamericanlife
Ihttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/779/ends-of-the-earth