dementia

"Everyone had high expectations for Hudson Wheeler. His fourth grade teacher even wrote to his parent that Hudson was 'going places.' But everything went downhill after his father dies on the battlefield of Iraq one year later. Now facing his senior year of high school without his tow best friends by his side and with his teacher's letter still haunting him, Hudson seizes homeschooling as an opportunity to retreat from the world. What happens during this year will to be anything but a retreat, as Hudson experiences love and rejection for the first time and solves the painful mystery of the 'the girl in the window'-- an apparition seen only by the WWII vet whose poignant plight forces Hudson out of the comfort zone of boyhood"--Back cover.

Provides information about alzheimer's and dementia disease including the history, causes, and treatments, as well as the communication and psychological and social strengths possessed by people diagnosed.

Keggie Carew attempts to piece together the life of her unorthodox father, Tom Carew, who was a member of the Jedburghs--an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British intelligence agencies during World War II--as dementia begins to take hold of him and talks about how he influenced her own life.

"Following a family tragedy, 18-year-old Gabe LoScuda suddenly finds himself thrust into the role of caregiver for his ailing grandfather. Between the shopping trips and the doctor visits with Grandpa, Gabe and his friend John try to salvage their senior year, meet girls, and make the varsity baseball team. It doesn't take long for Gabe to realize that going to school and looking after a grandfather with Alzheimer's is more work than he ever imagined. And when long-lost Uncle Nick appears on the scene, Gabe soon finds that living with Nick and Grandpa is like babysitting two grown men. Aside from John, the only person who truly understands Gabe is Sofia, a punk-rocking rebel he meets at the veteran's hospital"--Provided by publisher.

When Prez's grandfather is diagnosed with dementia, he's sent to live in a foster home, but when he meets a talking dog named Sputnik, together, they come up with a plan to save the world.

In England, newly pregnant seventeen-year-old Hattie and her gin-drinking great-aunt Gloria, who is in the early stages of dementia, set out together on a road trip of self-discovery--Gloria to finally confront the secrets of her past before they are wiped from her memory forever and Hattie to face the hard choices that will determine her future.

Perry decides to make an unconventional alphabet book with the help of her Gran, Honora Lee, and the other residents of the Santa Lucia rest home to help the residents connect with each other and their interests.

Nadia Cara is in Florence, Italy with her family because her professor father is researching the 1966 flood, but Nadia herself is in trouble--she has turned into a kleptomaniac and she feels detached from everything, except for an elusive Italian boy whom no one but herself has seen.

After eleven-year-old Liam moves to the home of his grandmother, who has dementia, with his sister and his alcoholic mother, he copes with his difficulties by befriending a stone gargoyle.

"When ten-year-old Liam's family moves to be near his grandmother who is suffering from dementia, he must navigate a new neighborhood, a new school, and his grandmother's illness all by hiimself. It isn't easy for Liam. Walking his dog one day, Liam discovers an old stone gargoyle in a rundown church, and suddenly he knows that his life is about to change forever. The gargoyle has the ability to come to life, acting out stories that Liam imagines. For the first time in his life, Liam discovers the power of storytelling to help deal with things that are really tough to talk about. Unfortunately, Liam also learns that stories can sometimes be dangerous. When one of the bullies at school is seriously injured in a way that sounds suspiciously like what happens in a story he made up, Liam decides to stay away from the gargoyle for good. But his grandmother's illness is getting worse, his mom is having trouble coping, and his sister is skipping school. What if the gargoyle--as dangerous as it may be--is the only thing that can save Liam's family?"--Dust jacket.