Fiction & Memoirs
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Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease
One Family's Story
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a hereditary illness passed on via a defective gene. There is a fifty per cent chance of inheriting it from a parent and there is yet no cure. Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease is one family's poignant story of coping with the symptoms, the diagnosis and the effects of HD. more »
2007, Paperback: £15.99/ $25.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-487-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
Keywords: counselling, families, health care, memoirs, palliative care
Relative Grief
Parents and children, sisters and brothers, husbands, wives and partners, grandparents and grandchildren talk about their experience of death and grieving
In this collection of accounts, people share their experiences of losing loved ones through death from natural causes, genetic conditions, accident, suicide and murder. Looking at death from different perspectives, it encourages people to understand their own grief and how those around to them might be affected by what can seem a very private loss. more »
2005, Paperback: £15.99/ $24.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-257-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Keywords: bereavement, counselling, families, grief, memoirs, palliative care
Dancing with Dementia
My Story of Living Positively with Dementia
Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype by campaigning for self-advocacy, writing articles and speaking at national conferences. This book is a vivid account of the author's experiences of dementia. more »
2005, Paperback: £13.99/ $21.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-332-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 200pp
Keywords: counselling, dementia, fiction, memoirs, older people, palliative care, practical theology, theology
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