Then check out the new book, Caregivers: Drowning in a Sea of Cognitive Challenges, written by Delaune Pollard.

This book provides the reader with an in-depth detailed and easy to read approach to caregiving and explains what people in their care neurobiologically “can do” based on the Cognitive Level Scale and the latest research on brain function. It describes how informal caregivers are subjected to incredible stress causing inflammation within their own bodies resulting in a condition known as “Caregiver Syndrome.”

Illogically, what is often not understood or discussed in this age of scientific advancement, modern medicine and improved health-care techniques is the fragility of the human brain and the deficits in functional cognition resulting from brain dysfunction.

Caregivers recognize the difficulties faced by those they are assisting but have never been given a satisfactory reason why the person they are caring for cannot successfully do basic daily activities and tasks. It is extremely daunting for caregivers who need to prompt and cue knowing at any time they will be verbally abused by the person they care for, why do they continue -- “because they care.”

Caregivers: Drowning in a Sea of Cognitive Challenges is the one book designed for wider publication describing what is really happening to the brains of people with cognitive deficit, including:

• Why the “sense of self” is so fragile and why they must protect themselves preventing them from having empathy for others and constantly say “I want this” or “You made me do that”;

• Why inherited personality traits influence their physical and emotional behavior and the way they “act out” even if they mishear what has been said to them;

• Why it is impossible to change the way they do daily tasks including such things as not understanding how much pressure they need to apply to a tube of toothpaste to place a small amount on a brush. This can be highly frustrating and distressing to caregivers particularly if they are on a pension as they see money being wasted;

• Why denial is their constant companion -- constant denial there is anything wrong with them. Even if they say my memory is going, if the caregiver suggests they give up driving a car, they will flatly deny anything is wrong with their driving;

• Why being hurtful, and at times verbally and physically abusive occurs when their fragile “sense of self” is threatened;

• Why the people with cognitive deficits begin a process of reversed ontogenesis which presents as a reversal of development. How cognitive deficits produce observable “backward slide” patterns which affect the way people go about their everyday tasks;

• Why they have a slower pace when doing any activity.

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