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Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CareGiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION I
Who? What? Where?
“What’s the name of that disease where
you forget … ?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
“I’ve got rocks in my head!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Amazing Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
“Damn, you’re handsome!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Bad Hair Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Making Sense of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Don’t Eat the Yellow and Green Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
“Who’s the father?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Whose Prosthesis is This Anyway? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION II
Children Show the Way
A Child Shows the Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Good Things Out of Bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
When Our Parents Become Our Children . . . . . . . . . . 49
Saving a Life with Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION III
Loving Couples
Dreams Swept In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
“Do you take … in sickness and
in health?” “I do.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
“May I help you?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sonny Sagas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Those Three Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION IV
Friends are Like Family
Family of Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
A Prayer Answered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Is it C.R.S. or Alzheimer’s? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
David’s Pink Purse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SECTION V
Celebrations
Ice Cream Never Tasted So Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Slept Right Through Thanksgiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Four Special Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
The Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
SECTION VI
The Birds and the Bees
“Do I have Erectile Dysfunction?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
“You’d better go now, my wife will
be home soon.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Lovers for Fifty-Six Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
A Bedtime Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
“I forget dear, what’s an orgasm?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
The Naked Bride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
SECTION VII
Discoveries in Nursing Homes
Never to be Forgotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
The Victorian Tea Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Generation to Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
A Golden Retriever Makes a Difference . . . . . . . . . . . 144
A Hug, A Tender Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Contributors’ Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Resources and Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Suggested Reading/Listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Permissions (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Call for Submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Order Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

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