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Author Smith, B. (Barbara), 1949-

Title Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's / B. Smith and Dan Gasby with Michael Shnayerson ; foreword by Rudolph E. Tanzi.

Publication Info. New York : Harmony, [2015]
©2016

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  616.831 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. SMITH, B.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. SMITH, B.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SMITH, BARBARA    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO SMITH    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  616.831 SMI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B SMITH BARBARA S    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  616.831 SMI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  616.831 SMI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  616.831 SMI c.2  Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 319 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-306) and index.
Summary "I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, "What are we going to do? How long are we staying?" It's like I'm talking to my other self--the self I used to be. She tells me, "This is what we need to buy--not that." I'm conscious of that other self guiding me now." Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 64 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She's not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks. B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well lessons learned along the way. At its heart, though, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope"-- Provided by publisher.
"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband, Dan, share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Foreword -- Little signs of difference -- The new normal -- Putting aside pride and privacy -- Queen of the Three Rivers -- Brave, then and now -- Time to speak out -- Walking in her shoes -- Stalking an unstoppable disease -- Alzheimer's and African Americans -- The road ahead.
Subject Smith, B. (Barbara), 1949-
Gasby, Dan.
Alzheimer's disease -- Biography.
Husband and wife -- Biography.
Alzheimer's disease -- Family relationships.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia.
SELF-HELP / General.
Added Author Gasby, Dan.
Shnayerson, Michael.
ISBN 9780553447125 (hardcover)
0553447122 (hardcover)
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