Wayman offers compassionate advice on overcoming practical and emotional obstacles to maintaining meaningful relationship with loved ones who have dementia and memory loss. She offers caregiving insights and information about the dangers of denying the onset of cognitive problems.

"A #1 national bestseller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma able to see people's futures and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in the dead zone--a "compulsive page-turner" (the atlanta journal-constitution)"--

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops...

"It is always there. If I want to pick it up, if I want to relinquish the protection over my peace...if I want to set aside my positive disposition, the opportunity is always there. When the unimaginable occurred four months into my marriage, I not only survived the devastation but had the audacity to brazenly live! This memoir will not take you on a dark, depressive path and then finally into the light. It's raw, honest, and the stuff people do not...

"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...

"How to Prevent Dementia begins with the principle that the more we know about dementia, the easier it is to prevent or delay it. A better foundation of knowledge also helps people to understand and interact thoughtfully with family members and other loved ones who may have Alzheimer's and other dementias. Dr. Restak examines the basic thinking of normal everyday people and progresses to people with thinking disorders. In understanding that dementias...

"Navigating Life with Dementia is a handbook that includes information and resources to manage day-to-day issues and anticipate the long-term impact of dementia on people with the disease and their friends and families. Written by a neurologist with years of personal, clinical, and research experience in helping individuals in all stages of dementia and their families, beginning with the earliest hints of cognitive problems through its late-stage...

When nine-year-old Charlee and eighty-year-old Marva are both diagnosed with cancer, the prospects of having a merry Christmas seem bleak, until a series of letters and gifts that coincide with the 12 days of Christmas begin to appear.

An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.