Pietro, Mary Jo Santo, and Elizabeth Ostuni. Successful Communication with Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: An In-Service Manual. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Butterworth Heinemann, 2003.
This book is designed as a training session, complete with checklists, self-study questionnaires and checklists, and has clearly been used to train care workers in institutions. But its use extends beyond that limited purpose: it provides a wealth of useful advice and guidance to anyone who's involved in the care of someone with Alzheimer's.
I found it particularly useful at the early stages for planning, because it gives a very useful overview of the patterns of deterioration in the communication skills of Alzheimer's patients: what skills are preserved in the early stages, and the middle and the late stages.
The poem that opens the book is so moving that it had me in tears for about an hour: don't read it in the bookstore!
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