Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks

A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's

Lela Knox Shanks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2005
Bison Books (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9328-1 (ISBN)

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Practical guide to care giving as well as a love song to the author's husband, a victim of Alzheimer's.

Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks is Lela Knox Shanks’s personal account of caring for her husband, Hughes, in their home after he was stricken with Alzheimer’s disease. Lela describes her initial denial, her discovery of coping skills, her eventual acceptance of his illness, and her ultimate recognition that the key to successful caregiving lies in never losing sight of the patient’s humanness. The book outlines twenty coping and survival strategies to guide caregivers to untapped inner resources and shows caregiving’s intangible rewards of increased self-respect and self-knowledge.

Lela Knox Shanks (1927–2011) was an independent scholar and lecturer living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She and Hughes were married for fifty years and have four children. Hughes Hannibal Shanks worked for the federal government for thirty years and was the first African American hired by the Denver Social Security Administration office in the 1950s. This edition includes an epilogue by Lela. Steven H. Zarit is a professor of human development at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the coauthor of The Hidden Victims of Alzheimer’s Disease: Families under Stress.

Vorwort	Steven H. Zarit
Zusatzinfo	Illus.
Verlagsort	Nebraska
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 203 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-9328-3 / 0803293283
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-9328-1 / 9780803293281
Zustand	Neuware