Complete Guide to Alzheimers Proofing Your Home

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Here is a book that will profoundly improve the environmental quality of caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease at home.

Author: Mark L. Warner

Book Review 1

A Book Review by Geri Richard Hall, Ph.D. c., ARNP, CNS
Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona

A Complete Guide to Alzheimer's's--Proofing Your Home is a comprehensive practical guide for helping in-home caregivers and health professionals who advise them, to evaluate the home environment and make modifications enhancing safety and function. Easy to read, the book offers the reader numerous new ideas on every page, each with the potential solve some small yet vexing problem. The book begins with an overview of how to evaluate the rooms and exterior areas of a typical home and how to formulate a plan that facilitates maximum function for both the care-recipient and caregiver.

A strength of the book is the second chapter. It provides a disease overview focusing on symptom presentation and how it affects day to day function. This is particularly helpful for the caregiver as it explains how a symptom/behavior is represented in their home. Quotes familiar to professionals working with families help caregivers to recognize how this relates to their own situation. These quotes help to give the book focus and direction, but more important, the quotes provide a very empathetic and "human" touch and make the book highly readable. I find this approach much more salient than "academic approaches" to the description of dementia.

Another strength is the glossary of terms, which is comprehensive and simple to understand. It can help the caregiver speak with health care professionals or understand recommendations - a problem even when the professional speaks in the simplest possible terms. A last strength is the recommendation of products designed for people with AD or for other purposes, but work well for people with AD. The authors have included a shopping guide for convenience of the reader. While this will need to be updated every few years, it is an invaluable resource.

A Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home is a well-written thoughtful collection of ideas for home-based caregivers. The one drawback to the book is that it reinforces how terribly complex caring for people with dementia can be. The comprehensive table of contents can help caregivers sort out what they need to examine for each problem. This is a new approach to AD care and should, in my opinion, be an invaluable addition to the "Alzheimer's professional's" library.

Geri Richard Hall, Ph.D. c., ARNP, CNS
Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale

Book Review 2

A Review by Beverly Bigtree Murphy, MS, CRC,
Caregiver, Advocate, Author

The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home is remarkable. It is about time caregivers, of family members with Alzheimer's disease, were offered something more than reasons to institutionalize their people. Caregivers need information, options, and where to access tools and resources before they can make informed decisions about their role as caregiver. As someone who spent 25 years designing rehabilitation plans for the handicapped and another 10 years facing the care of my husband Tom, who died of this disease, in his home, in 1995, this is the first volume I have read that speaks of caregiving in positive, life-giving terms. While it offers pragmatic, workable, affordable solutions to caregivers, it never loses sight of the continued humanity and needs of our family members to be regarded and loved as part of the process. Every family facing Alzheimer's Disease and related dementia's should have this book on hand for reference.

Beverly Bigtree Murphy, MS, CRC,
Caregiver, Advocate
Author of: He used to be Somebody, A Journey Into
Alzheimer's Through the Eyes of a Caregiver
Gibbs Associates
P.O. Box 706
Boulder, CO 80306-0706
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Book Review 3
A Review by Mike Tribby,
BOOKLIST

Loving care at home is the most desirable situation for many Alzheimer's suffers and their families, but it is difficult to realize. Warner's thoughtful book aims to help by showing how to make a home more navigable, comfortable, and just plain livable for the Alzheimer's patient. Nicely presented and well illustrated, the book deals with rearranging and remodeling the patient's living space clearly and concisely and also addresses "thinking-related issues" such as keeping pets and the misinterpretations, hallucinations, and delusions attendant on the disease. In short, Warner strives for comprehensive coverage of the specifics of caring for afflicted loved ones in the home. A generous directory of relevant products and manufacturers and a helpful glossary further distinguish this superlative resource for home caregivers.

Mike Tribby
BOOKLIST

Book Review 4
A Review by Bob Hoffman,
Caregiver, Web Master at the Hoffman Family Home Page

The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home by Mark Warner, Ageless Design. This book will become available in June, 1998, and will be one of the most important references that a home caregiver can have. How do you prepare your home to protect your Loved One from wandering? How do you manage incontinence at home? What is available to help lifting and showering? These and many other questions are treated in detail with specific solutions described and companies listed with their 800 numbers to obtain the solution you will need. You will find this book invaluable. Author: Mark L. Warner, AIA, N.C.A.R.B.

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