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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction: A Trajectory of Change -- Part One: Looking Back -- Early Warning Signs -- Restless -- The Recession's Fault, or is it? -- Part Two: The Journey Begins -- The Fall -- Panic -- Say it Again, and Again -- Sorry, You can't Drive that Car -- Rejected by the Government, or, You Seem Just Fine to Us -- The Secret of Your Disease -- Part Three: Things Really Fall Apart -- Hurry Up and Wait -- A Spectacular Flameout -- When a Writer Can No Longer Write -- Part Four: Dateline Diagnosis -- Back to the Beginning |
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What Next? -- Alzheimer's by the Numbers -- Epilogue: One Hundred Days and Counting -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
"A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering -- and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease."-- Provided by publisher |
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Wanless, Tony, 1949- -- Health
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Hutton, June, 1954- -- Marriage
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Wanless, Tony, 1949- |
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Hutton, June, 1954- |
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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography
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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships
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Spouses -- Biography
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Alzheimer's disease.
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Alzheimer Disease
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients).
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Alzheimer's disease
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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients
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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships
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Health
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Marriage
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Spouses
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wanless, Tony, 1949- author.
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| ISBN |
9781459747814 |
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1459747801 |
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145974781X |
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9781459747807 |
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