The 36-Hour Day is an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. This book will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs.

Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition includes new information on:

• Devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia
• Strategies for delaying behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms
• Changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws
• Palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship
• Dementia due to traumatic brain injury
• Choosing a residential care facility
• Support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members

Why We Love This Gift: Taking care of your loved one with Alzheimer's or Dementia is a very difficult choice to make. This book provides the reader with the tools to realize that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and those caring for them.

What To Express In Your Card: This book will acknowledge and offer you many tools for your caregiving journey. I cannot imagine how exhausted you must be from all of this. I hope you feel immensely proud of yourself - you are doing an awesome job.