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Join thousands of caregivers who are adopting this groundbreaking and uplifting method for the care of people with Alzheimer’s disease. This comprehensive program builds on the essential elements of friendship: respect, empathy, support, trust, humor. They’re the building blocks of a care model that’s both effective and flexible enough to adapt to each person’s remaining strengths and abilities. Learn how to ensure the highest quality of life for people with dementia by making every day consistently reassuring, enjoyable, and secure. Best Friends™ for the best care.

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If a single book can provide an understanding of how to provide care to people with Alzheimer's disease, this could be it.

One of the first, and still one of my favorites [positive, uplifting books on Alzheimer's disease]...easy to grasp and always respectful of the person with the disease. --Kathy Laurenhue, Director of Special Projects, Mather Institute on Aging Alzheimer's Care Quarterly (01/01/2001) For every friend, relative, or caregiver to a person with Alzheimer's, [Best Friends] offers practical advice, compassion and optimism in understanding and dealing with the challenges they face each day and how to bring out the best in the person with the disease, so that a life that seems at times hopeless can be a life of love and dignity. --Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul (01/01/2001) Virginia Bell and David Troxel ... argue persuasively that the proper metaphor for organizing our thinking in this area is not the distant clinical reserve of the professional but the open and engaged warmth of a best friend... [They] have written powerfully about this in their book. --William H. Thomas, founder, The Eden Alternative (01/01/2001) The Best Friends philosophy ... has been adopted as a model through Maine and has become one of our most valuable caregiving resources. We've seen it in action and heartily recommend it! --Eleanor Goldberg, Executive Director, Maine Alzheimer's Association (01/01/2001)

innovative and refreshing due to the relaxed and natural 'hands on' approach - an empowering book that proves one can enjoy life after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. -- (01/01/2001) One of the first, and still one of my favorites [positive, uplifting books on Alzheimer's disease]...easy to grasp and always respectful of the person with the disease. -- (01/01/2001) For every friend, relative, or caregiver to a person with Alzheimer's, [Best Friends] offers practical advice, compassion and optimism in understanding and dealing with the challenges they face each day and how to bring out the best in the person with the disease, so that a life that seems at times hopeless can be a life of love and dignity. -- (01/01/2001) Virginia Bell and David Troxel ... argue persuasively that the proper metaphor for organizing our thinking in this area is not the distant clinical reserve of the professional but the open and engaged warmth of a best friend... [They] have written powerfully about this in their book. -- (01/01/2001) Here at last are two compassionate, humorous, experienced authors (David Troxel and Virginia Bell) who say it's time to stop being morbid and negative about AD. ...It's the best training guide for families and professionals in print. A must for every Alzheimer's library. -- (01/01/2001) The Best Friends philosophy ... has been adopted as a model through Maine and has become one of our most valuable caregiving resources. We've seen it in action and heartily recommend it! -- (01/01/2001) [ Bell and Troxel] have laid out a way of relating that is immediately accessible to all involved in dementia and a policy and programme for service provision. ...Here is an initiative that is easy to understand and is within the immediate capacity of each of us to deliver. -- (01/01/2001) .. .a potential gold mine for afflicted families. -- (01/01/2001)

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Virginia Bell has lectured widely on Alzheimer's disease at national and international conferences, speaking at 12 National Education Conferences of the Alzheimer's Association and lecturing at 18 conferences of Alzheimer's Disease International. Sheâ s published journal articles and books, notably in Dementia Care: Patient, Family and Community (John Hopkins, 1989). Many of her articles have been reprinted numerous times: ""The Alzheimer's Disease Bill of Rights"" (1994), ""The other Face of Alzheimer's Disease"" (1999) and ""Spirituality and the Person with Dementia"" (2001), co-authored with David Troxel and published in the American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and in the Alzheimer's Care Quarterly. She has also co-authored five books with David Troxel. Virginia is currently the Program Consultant for the Greater Kentucky and Southern Indiana Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.

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