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Countering
Memory Loss

New book captures interaction
among kids, aging grandparents.

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Elder Care Cafe as "superbly written"
hat happens when your
"heartwarming and timely," includes
very own grandma no
ways in which children can interact
longer can remember
with their grandparent. Also included
your birthday?
are explanationsthat parents can use
How do children respond and how
as a model to help children under-
do they psychologically deal with
stand the disease.
something they simply
"Young children who
cannot understand?
do
not yet read can still
Zina Kramer, a mar-
easily
follow the story
keting executive with
through
the colorful
a specialty in public
pictures:'
said Elder Care
service, has answered
Cafe
in
its
review of the
these questions in a
book.
new book, Hugging
Eva Feldman, M.D.,
Grandma: Loving Those
the
Russell N. DeJong
With Memory Disorders.
Professor
of Neurology
The book captures with
at
the
University
of
compassion and love
Michigan,
said
the
fam-
the story of a young girl
ily
dynamic
changes
and how she copes with Activist Zina Kramer
when the brain func-
the fact that her grand-
tion of a grandparent is impaired by
mother has Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer's or dementia.
Strengthened by the wonder-
"Hugging Grandma is a rich story
ful times they shared together, the
that teaches children love endures
granddaughter finds ways to help
even when their grandparent's abili-
her grandmother still feel useful and
ties are altered;' Feldman writes in her
needed.
dust jacket tribute.
"The book's goal," says Kramer, "is
Illustrated by David Messing, the
to be a comforting story that acknowl-
book, which sells for $12.95, is avail-
edges what the child has lost while
able through the Web site at
teaching positive ways to cope with a
www.zinakramerbooks.com or can be
new situation. It is meant to encour-
ordered through major booksellers.
age discussion within the family and
Kramer with her husband, Michael,
to focus on finding new practi-
lives in Bloomfield Hills. They have
cal strategies to help
three children and two grand-
those with memory
children. ❑
disorders."
After six years of
caring for her moth-
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er, an Alzheimer's
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patient, and having
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caregiver respon-
sibilities for her
mother-in-law
with dementia,
Kramer wrote
Hugging
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Grandma.
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She hopes the
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book will provides sup-
port for the great number of families
affected by a loved one with a memory
disorder.
The 32-page book, described by

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