Journey With Grandpa: Our Family's Struggle With Alzheimer's Disease
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when the grandfather you've always known begins to disappear before your eyes? Journey with Grandpa is a profoundly human memoir that chronicles one family's harrowing experience navigating the relentless progression of Alzheimer's disease, told with unflinching honesty and deep familial love. Rosalie Walsh Honel places the reader at the heart of her family's daily reality — the confusion, the grief, the moments of unexpected tenderness — as they struggle to care for an aging patriarch whose identity is slowly being erased by dementia. Beyond its personal narrative, this work stands as a vital document of the caregiving experience, illuminating the emotional, physical, and logistical burdens that fall upon families confronting Alzheimer's at a time when public awareness of the disease was only beginning to surface. Honel's prose is compassionate and accessible, grounding the clinical realities of dementia in the deeply intimate language of family bonds and moral duty. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, the book carries the weight of both scholarly credibility and human authenticity — leaving the reader to wonder how any family truly prepares for a journey with no clear destination.
Author: Rosalie Walsh Honel
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when the grandfather you've always known begins to disappear before your eyes? Journey with Grandpa is a profoundly human memoir that chronicles one family's harrowing experience navigating the relentless progression of Alzheimer's disease, told with unflinching honesty and deep familial love. Rosalie Walsh Honel places the reader at the heart of her family's daily reality — the confusion, the grief, the moments of unexpected tenderness — as they struggle to care for an aging patriarch whose identity is slowly being erased by dementia. Beyond its personal narrative, this work stands as a vital document of the caregiving experience, illuminating the emotional, physical, and logistical burdens that fall upon families confronting Alzheimer's at a time when public awareness of the disease was only beginning to surface. Honel's prose is compassionate and accessible, grounding the clinical realities of dementia in the deeply intimate language of family bonds and moral duty. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, the book carries the weight of both scholarly credibility and human authenticity — leaving the reader to wonder how any family truly prepares for a journey with no clear destination.