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FAREWELL TO MY COMPANION IBD

HPEDITIONS
06 / 2021
9780648838098
Inglês

Sinopse

Farewell To My Companion recounts the trials and tribulations faced by the author, when caring for her husband, a patient with AlzheimerâÇÖs Disease.áIt highlights the doubts and the dedication involved and it is written with love and that sense of obligation inherent in such a task.ááThis áis the personal journey of a wifeâÇÖs care for her husband, once a journalist and successful politician, now a victim of AlzheimerâÇÖs Disease.áApart from a brief introduction to their past as a couple, it concentrates on the final years of his illness, on the terrible memory loss which affected their relationship.áIt delves, too, into his medical care and hospital treatment, but most of all, into the doubts and intricacies of his wifeâÇÖs emotions as she confronts his end and the knowledge of her solitary future.ááIt is a book written with the aim of sharing with others who might be passing through a similar experience, in the hopes that it might encourage them and offer them a friendly hand.