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Index
Contents
Foreword
Part I: The Airplane Diaries
Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds
Chapter 2: First Decline
What I Wish I’d Known: Early Warning Signs of Dementia
Chapter 3: Panic Attack
Chapter 4: Countdown to Advocacy
What I Wish I’d Known: What Is Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease . . . and How Do You Tell the Difference?
Chapter 5: A New Way of Seeing
Chapter 6: Passages
What I Wish I’d Known: How to Find a Good Memory Facility
Chapter 7: Montavilla Beginnings
What I Wish I’d Known: Moving Day—How to Ease the Transition
Chapter 8: Dallas II
Chapter 9: Visiting Hours
Chapter 10: The Phone Call
What I Wish I’d Known: Falls—A Leading Cause of Death in Older Adults and What You Can Do to Prevent Them
Chapter 11: Surgery for an Alzheimer’s Patient
Chapter 12: It’s a Matter of Life or Death
What I Wish I’d Known: A Deadly Fate with Few Symptoms—Dehydration—How to Recognize It and How to Prevent It
Chapter 13: Forsaken
Chapter 14: No Man Is an Island
Chapter 15: Do No Harm
What I Wish I’d Known: The Problem of Pain in Dementia and Why Millions of Seniors Are Suffering
Chapter 16: Return of the Man
Part II: A Good Ending
Chapter 17: A Radical Prescription
What I Wish I’d Known: The Best “Anti-aging” Pill of Them All
Chapter 18: No Senior Left Inside
What I Wish I’d Known: The ABC’S of Exercise
Chapter 19: I’m Not Cedaring; I’m Scissoring
What I Wish I’d Known: How to Ensure Parents’ Wishes for Care Are Met—Before a Crisis Hits
Chapter 20: Who’s Shelby?
What I Wish I’d Known: What Is a TIA? And What Do I Do If I Think My Parent Is Having One?
Chapter 21: Stories from the Fall
Chapter 22: The Very Best Christmas Ever
Chapter 23: Three Things
What I Wish I’d Known: The Art to Aging . . . Healthfully . . . for Your Body and Your Mind
Chapter 24: I See Little Green Men
What I Wish I’d Known: Come to Your Senses! The Value of Aids
Chapter 25: Delirious
Chapter 26: Paging Doctor HIP!
What I Wish I’d Known: What Delirium Is and Why It’s Essential You Know How to Spot It
Chapter 27: “Sometimes It’s Better If They Never Wake Up”
What I Wish I’d Known: The Most Important Medical Word That Can Save Your Parent’s Life—“Baseline”
Chapter 28: Where Old People Are Sent to Die
Chapter 29: The Lazarus Syndrome
Chapter 30: A Hope and a Future
Chapter 31: So What’s a Geriatrician and Why Should I Care?
What I Wish I’d Known: The Tsunami Is Coming . . . and Why You Should Be Worried
Chapter 32: Pharmacopeia
What I Wish I’d Known: Too Many Pills—The Fourth-Leading Cause of Death in Seniors
Chapter 33: The Search Begins
Chapter 34: Honey and Dummy
Chapter 35: Mountains and Valleys
What I Wish I’d Known: The Care and Maintenance of Caregivers
Chapter 36: Who’s Taking the Trazodone?
What I Wish I’d Known: How to Get a Good Night’s Rest—Naturally
Chapter 37: The Art of Caregiving
Chapter 38: Living to One Hundred
Chapter 39: And They Shall Inherit the Earth
Chapter 70: Go GICU! Stop Step-Down!
What I Wish I’d Known: The Serious Problems of Today’s Hospitals for Older Adults—Why We Need to Demand a Change Now
Chapter 41: How to Pack for the Next Trip
Chapter 42: Faithful Companion
Chapter 43: Crossing the Line
What I Wish I’d Known: What Is Palliative Care, and How Can It Help My Parents and Me?
Chapter 44: A Good Ending
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
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