Free Download Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5FRFWDD | 2023 | 5 hours and 53 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 162 MB
Author: Dasha Kiper
Narrator: Holly Linneman
These compelling case histories meld science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them. After getting a master's degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in caregiver for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer's disease. For a year, she endured the emotional strain of looking after a person whose condition disrupts the rules of time, order, and continuity. Inspired by her own experience and her work counseling caregivers in the subsequent decade, Kiper offers an entirely new way to understand the symbiotic relationship between patients and those tending to them. Her book is the first to examine how the workings of the "healthy" brain prevent us from adapting to and truly understanding the cognitively impaired one.