Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimers or Herbal Medicine Makers Handbook

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story

Author: Lauren Kessler

Previously published in HC as Dancing With Rose

One journalist's riveting-and surprisingly hopeful- in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's

Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer's facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the disease— and that's almost everyone—has to read this book. (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch)

Seattle Times

Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.

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Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual

Author: James Green

This guide to the kitchen pharmacy discusses the entire process of preparing herbal medicines at home, from methods of growing, gathering, and drying herbs to different ways of extracting their vital essences and making healing balms, lotions, and more.

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The Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook blends the herbalist author's natural home remedies with his perspectives on the art of herbal medicine's applications, with recipes for folk extractions including plenty of recommendations for usage. The result is far more in-depth than your usual herbal recipe book, packed with insights on how to extract herbs, make tinctures, and apply them properly.