Connection IS Possible: A Kinder Way to Reach Someone Living with Dementia
Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Sheli Monacchio
جزئیات
فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF ناشر: AMJ Legacy Publishing تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : October 4, 2026
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لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLY6NLBR
1,145,000 تومان
زمان تحویل: حداکثر 24 ساعت
توضیحات
She asked you the same question for the fourth time this hour. You answered it with facts, and it went badly. There is a kinder way, and it works.Every day, somewhere, a daughter is standing in a kitchen with a mother who wants to go home while she is already home. A husband is being told he is a stranger by the woman he has been married to for fifty years. A son is being accused of stealing a ring that is sitting in the drawer where it always was.They all reach for the same tool, because it is the only one anyone handed them. They correct. They reason. They explain. And every time, the person they love gets more frightened, more alone, and further away.Connection IS Possible gives you a different tool, and it fits in a single breath.Sheli Monacchio became a caregiver at fourteen, for a grandmother with a dementia nobody in the house had named. She has spent the twenty-seven years since sitting beside families in kitchen tables, living rooms, memory cares, and the conversations that happen in parking lots after the appointment. What she learned, some of it by doing it wrong, is the whole of this book: her peace matters more than your accuracy. You cannot change her reality. You can change how alone she feels inside it.Inside you will find:Exact words for the six moments every family faces. "I want to go home." "You stole my ring." "Where's Dad?" (when Dad has died). The shower. The pills. "Who are you?" Each one with the feeling underneath it, and the sentence that answers the feeling first.Eight tools you can use tonight. The Kindlet, a compassionate reframe built from her own life. The Four Steps, in one breath. Tell, Don't Ask, so you never have to hear "I don't remember" again. Small Intentional Choices, Distributed Anchors, and the vow you may need to rewrite.Real scenes, side by side. The correction, and what it cost. The connection, and what it gave back. The same moment, two ways, so you can see the difference before you need it.A chapter for when words are gone. Because connection continues after conversation ends, through music, a warm washcloth, and a hand that closes around yours.A chapter for you. The grief nobody names, the guilt that travels with it, and how to measure success in small degrees on the days there is nothing else to measure.A field guide at the back, gathered in one place for the night you need it fast.This is a book for the person who loves someone living with dementia and is running out of ways to reach them. It is short on purpose, plain on purpose, and honest about what dementia takes. It is also certain about what it does not take, which is your ability to make her feel safe, understood, and less alone, tonight, with one sentence.You cannot fix this. You can still connect. Start here.
1,145,000 تومان
زمان تحویل: حداکثر 24 ساعت