36-Hour Day A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss
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Nancy L. Mace, M.A., is retired. She was a consultant to and member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is the Richman Family Professor of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the departments of Mental Health, and Health Policy and Management. Dr. Rabins is also the director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service, and the Jane K. Schapiro Family-Centered Dementia Care Program.The best guide of its kind. Chicago Sun-Times Both a guide and a legend. Chicago Tribune Excellent guidance and clear information of a kind that the family needs... The authors offer the realistic advice that sometimes it is better to concede the patient's frailties than to try to do something about them, and that a compassionate sense of humor often helps. New York Times Bursting with suggestions, options, caveats, and advice, this work, now in its fifth edition, remains the definitive guide to living with dementia... Professionally produced with consistent volume, the audiobook has calming background music leading into each chapter without overwhelming either reader. Library Journal
"The best guide of its kind."—Chicago Sun-Times
“Both a guide and a legend.”—Chicago Tribune
"Excellent guidance and clear information of a kind that the family needs . . . The authors offer the realistic advice that sometimes it is better to concede the patient's frailties than to try to do something about them, and that a compassionate sense of humor often helps."—New York Times
Originally published in 1981, The 36-Hour Day was the first book of its kind. Thirty years later, with dozens of other books on the market, it remains the definitive guide for people caring for someone who has dementia. Now in its 5th edition, this best-selling book features chapters on the causes of dementia, managing the early stages of dementia, the prevention of dementia, and finding appropriate living arrangements for the person who has dementia when home care is no longer an option.