Slow Dancing Through the Final Years

SLOW DANCING THROUGH THE FINAL YEARS is a feel good story about the joys of leading a loved one through the many stages of a degenerative illness such as Alzheimers Muscular Dystrophy Parkinsons or a stroke. It is a chronicle advancing the idea that caring is joy that slow good-byes are not all bad and that lifes greatest reward is the giving of ones best love. It is an inspirational self-help guide offering pathways of discovering ones own personal growth in the process of caring for a loved one with an illness that chips away at their life little by little each day. This story is about a mother who had a twenty year walk with Alzheimers. The author her daughter imparts her very happy and active life during her years of part-time care for her mother and offers her method of segregating time for each of her lifes demands. The underlying theme is: Make lemonade with lemons. SLOW DANCING offers enlightened options for the caregiver to investigate and choices to consider. For many it seems like a long dark tunnel but this book offers them encouragement and a glimpse of the bright light at the end of the tunnel.