From first symptoms to long-term care planning, step-by-step guidance for caregivers.
Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most feared diagnoses of our times. If you are beginning the journey into this disease or into another related form of dementia, you may be feeling terrified and alone. Ahead of Dementia is here to give you essential information to start your path to caregiving with confidence, making the best use of the many resources available to you in your community.
You don’t have to do it alone.
For Caregivers
Caring for a loved one with dementia is one of the greatest challenges one might face in life. It requires resilience, creativity, planning, and knowledge of the multiple facets of memory care. Ahead of Dementia is an essential tool for family caregivers.
For People Living with Memory Loss
If you want to do your best, learn to manage your memory issues constructively, and live a healthier, happier life,
this book is written for you!
Written because
there is much life to live!
Manténgase un paso Adelante
Ahead of Dementia is also available for Spanish speaking caregivers. Un Paso Adelante de La Demencia can be found in paperback, kindle, and audio book formats, for professional and family caregivers.
Stay Informed
As medical advances bring us new treatments and diagnostic tools, Ahead of Dementia will continue to inform you in every step of the way. Find our most relevant updates on our Substack home, and plan to be here for the cure!
The Caregiver Experience
Doctors diagnose, nurses heal,
and caregivers make sense of it all.
— Brett H. Lewis
Rachel
Caregiver for her Husband with Frontotemporal Dementia
I’ve learned so much from this book! I wish the doctor had taken the time to explain it all to us when we got the diagnosis. It really opened our eyes to what to expect next and empowered us get better care for my husband’s health!
Steve
Caregiver for him Mom with Alzheimer’s
There is a lot of great information in this book. I like the way it speaks to me in a very clear way. It is almost as if Luciana were talking directly to me. And the tables are so helpful!
Ariadne
Caregiver for her Husband with Lewy Body
My husband and I have suffered from his dementia for a dozen years now. As a caregiver, how I wish I had this wonderful detailed guidebook with me every step of the way. Ahead of Dementia is the map I needed to get me from “Something is wrong with my darling” to “OMG, he has a progressive brain disease” to “I’m losing more of my husband every day and this is not the man I married” to “how can I communicate with him now? to “what can I do about in-home help and respite care? How can I afford that?” to “I just can’t care for him at home any more. What are my choices for long-term care?” Even to hospice care. He has been on and off hospice twice now. Every one of those concerns and so many more are covered with wit and clarity and compassion in Luciana Mitzkun’s book.