Be with
Subtitle: letters to a caregiver
By: Mike Barnes
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781771962438
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Older people; Patients; Care; Alzheimer's disease; Caregivers
Description: "Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace—and, ultimately, inspiration. Meant to be a companion in waiting rooms, on bus routes, or while a loved one naps, Be With is a dippable source of clarity for harried readers who might only have time for a few lines or paragraphs. Mike Barnes writes with sensitivity and grace about fellowship, responsibility, and joyful relatedness—what it means to simply be with the people that we love"--