Alzheimer's Fantasy in the Key of G (eBook, ePUB) - Levy, Kirsten
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An Alzheimer's tale in which unmoored thoughts become their own voyages into the past and future, revealing a story.
Alzheimer's Fantasy in the Key of G is the tale of Fran, the author's mother, who used Alzheimer's Disease for her best and final voyage as she declined into dementia. Told in a very different way from the traditional health memoir with multiple points of view-the author's, her mother's, hers imagining hers, and the narrator's-all intertwined, all necessary for non-verbal Fran could not tell it herself. . . . A creative, narrative tale where fantasy and personal witness speak up for the patient.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
An Alzheimer's tale in which unmoored thoughts become their own voyages into the past and future, revealing a story.

Alzheimer's Fantasy in the Key of G is the tale of Fran, the author's mother, who used Alzheimer's Disease for her best and final voyage as she declined into dementia. Told in a very different way from the traditional health memoir with multiple points of view-the author's, her mother's, hers imagining hers, and the narrator's-all intertwined, all necessary for non-verbal Fran could not tell it herself. . . . A creative, narrative tale where fantasy and personal witness speak up for the patient.

Autorenporträt
Kirsten Levy uses the gift of time to write about family and life experience-what better person than the daughter? She enjoyed a long career in research and administration at Boston University where she managed research, brought funds to the university, published several academic publications, and wrote grants, reports, newsletters and presented findings. She has an MBA in health care management. These twin pillars of her career, set in the medical environment, have stood her in good stead for the onset of Alzheimer's Disease within the family circle and propelled her involvement in volunteer activities and charity events: BAA Boston Marathon, Susan G. Komen, and Alzheimer's fundraisers; creation of a graduate-level public health preparedness course; deployment with the American Red Cross in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and her current work as a volunteer mentor in an author fellowship program. Kirsten enjoys the outdoors and dances Latin and ballroom standard for fun.