A husband of forty years seems to a person with Alzheimer's disease to be a stranger. A person with the disease may eat a meal and ten minutes later complain of hunger, having forgotten that he has just eaten. And it is an expensive illness. In Alzheimer's Disease, Revised Edition , author Susan Dudley Gold uses case studies to illustrate the plight of those with the disease. A list of organizations, a further reading list, Internet addresses, a glossary, and an index.
Most people think that arthritis only affects the elderly.
But Amanda Trask-Murphy was diagnosed with the disease when she was just eleven years old. She is among the nearly three hundred thousand children in the United States who have some form of arthritis. The author tells Amanda's story and how, with the help of her family and her doctor, she has learned to cope with the disease. A glossary, a further reading list, Internet addresses, and an index. Between 12 million and 15 million people in the United States have asthma, and most asthma begins before age five.