Care for the Carer

Jeff Camhi

• 22 februari 2024
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Samenvatting:

When his wife Jane was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia, Jeff Camhi believed he could manage caring for her at home. From his professional background in neurobiology, he had some idea how the illness might progress, and his recent retirement left him time to be her caregiver.

But as Jane’s dementia increased, he began to feel overwhelmed. He started meeting twice-monthly, for a year and a half, with a professor of occupational therapy who advised him on caring for Jane, but even more on caring for himself. The result was life-changing.

Thought-provoking and compassionate, Care for the Carer: An Alzheimer’s Memoir is essential reading for anybody troubled by the pressure of caregiving.

About the Author

Born and raised in New York’s suburbs, Jeff Camhi earned his PhD in neurobiology at Harvard. He was then a professor at Cornell for fifteen years, following which he moved with his family to Israel, where he was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for twenty-five years. Academically, he is best known for his research on how nerve cells produce behavior in animals.