Susan Elkin Writes Beautiful Spouse Memoir
Mar 28, 2023 4:58 pm
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Springtime is for new growth!
At AlzAuthors, ideas for new ways to support caregivers are always popping.
Our Custom Caregiver Collections offer support and a hand to hold for caregivers (and those with dementia). These collections, welcome additions to care communities, senior centers, support groups and other locations, provide opportunities for warm engagement.
Now our new Custom Caregiver Collection Bookends offer more flexibility. Manager and director, Susan Landeis and her husband Randy, created this new design, which allows us to create libraries of any size!
Check out our updated website page, to view the genres we offer and learn how a Custom Caregiver Collection can benefit you or your organization. Also, see our Introductory Pricing.
We’ve added lots of new photos of the beautiful books going out with our collections. (You might even see your book!)
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Meet Susan Elkin, Our Newest Author
If you are a spouse/caregiver, you'll certainly want to add this book to your caregiving collection by Susan Elkin. She is a British former teacher of secondary school English from South London who has been writing professionally since 1990: journalism for newspapers, magazines and websites and over 50 books. So when her husband, Nick was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2017, blogging about it came naturally. Those blogs, which ran until Nick’s death in 2019, are now compiled into her new book, The Alzheimer’s Diaries.
Susan writes:
Could, or should, I write about this “journey” that Ms Alzheimer’s had forced on us? Well, obviously, not without Nick’s permission. He was a quiet, quite private man so I expected him to give me an unequivocal no. To my amazement he said: “Yes, why not? When we meet people out it’s going to be much easier for me if everyone knows because they’ll make allowances – and maybe going public will help others.”
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Our Latest Podcast
When Cindy Weinstein's father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in the 1980's, she was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkley, separated from her family in Florida by more than 3,000 miles. Her family's dementia journey had a long-lasting impact on her, and decades later she decided to write a book about it with the assistance of neurologist Bruce Miller, MD. The award-winning Finding the Right Words: a story of literature, grief and the brain is the tale of a daughter's grief, of how she was studying and mastering language while her father struggled with word-finding. In this episode, we discuss the shock of her father's death and her lifelong grief, her desire to study the language that surrounds a dementia diagnosis and her mission to help others by writing a book about it, and how working with Dr. Miller helped her better understand the changes dementia brought to her father's brain.
Please note: The podcast will be on hiatus until further notice.
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Contact Susan through the link below.
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https://rarepatientvoice.com/alzauthors/
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