The Thing I Miss Most Is My Mind: An Insider's Guide to Achieving Positive Results When Confronting Alzheimer's (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936712083)

Where do you go when you first experience concern about your slowing memory? The Thing I Miss Most is My Mind is a good place to start for you, your closest friends and your family. No one knows what goes on in the mind of someone who is first experiencing the beginning of Alzheimer's. A guide to help yourself deal with the beginning symptoms can be reassuring when this happens. As soon as these symptoms are apparent to others, the search for help and information starts. It is helpful to have a to-do list as it makes one feel in control in organizing the tools needed to plan future options. Describing the journey that others have experienced with accurate information can be an aid in making decisions as this disease progresses. Medical, legal, financial resources are presented in easy to understand language. The role of caregivers and other resources and options for care is discussed along with the financial alternatives. Alzheimer's is a long-term terminal disease that effects many people.

As this disease is on-going for several years, consideration of the caregivers is addressed. Even after death, recovery of the caregivers is addressed. The Thing I Miss Most is My Mind can be an easy reference to provide information and comfort.