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Deborah Shouse


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Deborah Shouse is a writer, speaker, editor and creativity catalyst. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, Hemispheres, Family Circle, Spirituality & Health, Chicago Tribune, and MS. Deborah is the co-facilitator of the Kansas City Writer’s Group and the facilitator for the Kansas City Star Book Club. She also writes a weekly column on love stories for the Kansas City Star.

She co-authored Working Woman’s Communications Survival Guide (Prentice Hall), which is in its fifth printing and Antiquing for Dummies (written with Ron Zoglin). She has written several memoirs and business books such as Breaking the Ice, Making your Mark and Name Tags Plus (Skillpath). She is the co-author of Yes You Can! Live in Financial Harmony. Deborah has been featured in many anthologies, including more than a dozen Chicken Soup books.

     Deborah is donating all proceeds from her book, Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey to Alzheimer’s programs and research. So far, she has raised more than $14,000.00.  Deborah and her partner Ron Zoglin have performed her writings for Alzheimer’s Associations and caregivers groups in the United States,  New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Puerto Rico, England, Ireland, Italy, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey

Deborah Shouse
Creativity Connection Press (2006)
ISBN 0977759040
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (10/06)

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Synopsis: Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey offers readers a sense of compassion, deepening love and increased connection with the person who has Alzheimer's, along with practical tools forliving with dementia. This book chronicles Deborah Shouse's journey through her mother’s Alzheimer’s, and deals with the complex issues of loss and change, of flexibility and acceptance, and of celebrating the moments.

For many families, Alzheimer’s seems like an ending; but for Deborah Shouse, it was the beginning of a deep, spiritual journey. When her mother was diagnosed, Deborah was determined to move past her initial feelings of fear and confusion and to find the gifts in this disease that affects millions of people.

Statistics suggest that there may be as many as half a million people in the United States who have early onset Alzheimer’s, which occurs before age 65. Shouse's stories and deeply personal thoughts of her own experience offer hope as they help people understand, connect with, and appreciate the process of Alzheimer’s and the Alzheimer’s patient.

Love in the Land of Dementia received 2nd Place in the Reader Views Literary Awards – Nonfiction Memoir/Biography/Autobiography category.