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Four umbrellas, a couple's journey into young-onset Alzheimer's, June Hutton & Tony Wanless

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Label

Four umbrellas, a couple's journey into young-onset Alzheimer's, June Hutton & Tony Wanless

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Four umbrellas

Oclc number

1145094366

Responsibility statement

June Hutton & Tony Wanless

Sub title

a couple's journey into young-onset Alzheimer's

Summary

"A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering -- and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction: A Trajectory of Change -- Part One: Looking Back -- Early Warning Signs -- Restless -- The Recession's Fault, or is it? -- Part Two: The Journey Begins -- The Fall -- Panic -- Say it Again, and Again -- Sorry, You can't Drive that Car -- Rejected by the Government, or, You Seem Just Fine to Us -- The Secret of Your Disease -- Part Three: Things Really Fall Apart -- Hurry Up and Wait -- A Spectacular Flameout -- When a Writer Can No Longer Write -- Part Four: Dateline Diagnosis -- Back to the Beginning -- What Next? -- Alzheimer's by the Numbers -- Epilogue: One Hundred Days and Counting -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Back Cover

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

4 umbrellas

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