A ‘must read’ for every care partner because it really helps you to look at things differently! This book is very special in the way it provides you with hundreds of suggestions on how to be a good care partner for someone with dementia and enjoy this yourself as well. Deborah inspired me by bringing together so many positive examples of using creativity to engage with people with dementia.”--Marc Wortmann, Executive Director, Alzheimer’s Disease International

“Deborah Shouse’s inspiring book provides caregivers with tools from which to create meaningful, life-enhancing activities that can strengthen their connections. Buy the book, read it, highlight what inspires you. As you make notes and bend pages to personalize this guide, you are creating a family treasure.”--Carol Bradley Bursack, Founder of Minding Our Elders

“Once again, Deborah Shouse delivers a book that softens our hearts and opens our minds to find fun ways to connect to the soul. No matter what our situation in life, no matter what our ability is to communicate, we all crave and need to be connected to one another.”--Lori La Bey, Founder of Alzheimersspeaks website

Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey

For many families, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is an ending. For Deborah, it was a beginning, “My mother taught me how to celebrate and appreciate what we have right now.” Through her mother’s Alzheimer’s, Deborah discovered compassion, deepening love and increased connection with her mother and her family. Love in the Land of Dementia offers insight and hope to family members, friends, and caregivers of people with dementia, memory loss and Alzheimer’s.

Originally, Deborah and Ron self-published and used the book as a catalyst to raise more than $80,000 for Alzheimer’s programs and research. They will continue donate a portion of the proceeds to Alzheimer’s.

Love in the Land of Dementia_coverI have read hundreds of true stories about families dealing with Alzheimer’s disease. None were written more wonderfully or truthfully about the grief, guilt, and, yes, grace of caring for someone with this insidious disease. Readers journey with Deborah Shouse in her superbly written tale, finding hope in the loss and even happiness in the new connection.
 —LeAnn Thieman, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Caregiver’s Soul

“We have been searching for a text by a family caregiver that we can recommend unreservedly, and now we feel we have found one in Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey by Deborah Shouse. Whilst never denying the down-turns in caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, Deborah is intelligent and sensitive enough to notice all sorts of things which bring situations alive, give people hope, and constitute treasurable epiphanies.
” —The Journal of Dementia Care, Author and Alzheimer’s advocate John Killick, Dementia Positive, United Kingdom

Within the pages of this book you will find emotional comfort and practical tools for living with dementia. You will discover the bonds that hold families together and give them strength.
 —Jack Kinney, Member of the President’s Council on Aging

This very powerful story is an insightful experience of love, touching the essence of caring for someone with dementia.
 —Maurice O'Connell, CEO, The Alzheimer Society of Ireland, and Chair of Alzheimer Europe

6 Comments

  1. Theresa on May 8, 2014 at 6:40 am

    Awesome story! That is a great way to use a challenge and develop ways to help others assist with family that suffer from Alzheimer’s.



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  5. Arlene Hutcheon on July 28, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Hi I live in New Zealand. I would love to purchase this book. Can i buy it in New Zealand through an agency or bookshop? If not, can I have details to buy it from overseas? Thanks, Arlene Hutcheon



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