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Author Dafoe, Nancy, 1952- author.

Title An Iceberg in Paradise : a Passage through Alzheimer's / Nancy Avery Dafoe
Published Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2014

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Series Excelsior Editions
Excelsior editions.
Contents ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""About the Author of the Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Poetry Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on the Title""; ""Introduction: After the Fall""; ""Chapter One: Uncertainty""; ""Chapter Two: Why Now? Why My Family?""; ""Chapter Three: Secrets""; ""Chapter Four: Mistaken Identities""; ""Chapter Five: Early Signs and Symptoms""; ""Chapter Six: You Look Like Your Mother""; ""Chapter Seven: There�s a Tornado in My Head""; ""Chapter Eight: Helping the Doctor""; ""Chapter Nine: Icebergs in Paradise""; ""Chapter Ten: Managing at Home""
Chapter Eleven: What Would She Have Chosen?Chapter Twelve: Did You See The Notebook? -- Chapter Thirteen: What Not to Say -- Chapter Fourteen: Managing in a Nursing Home or Assisted Living Facility -- Chapter Fifteen: Collecting Memories -- Chapter Sixteen: Her Legacy -- Chapter Seventeen: Shadows -- Appendix A: Turning to the Web -- Appendix B: Texts on the Subject -- Index of Poems -- Notes -- About the Author
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Avery, Phyllis -- Mental health
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients
Mental health
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438455457
1438455453