{"id":3036,"date":"2011-09-25T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2011-09-24T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:36:11","slug":"september-is-world-alzheimers-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/september-is-world-alzheimers-month\/","title":{"rendered":"September is World Alzheimer’s Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

September is World Alzheimer\u2019s Month, an apt time to help raise awareness about this disease. The statistics<\/a> are devastating — in the United States, for example, 5.4 million individuals in this country live with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

So what does this have to do with our work as children\u2019s librarians?<\/p>\n

How many preschool\/school-age grandchildren, children, friends & neighbors do you think these 5.4 million people have? How many parents, teachers, and caregivers are struggling with how to open a discussion about this topic with their kids? Many of these adults will reach out to librarians in an effort to find materials which they can use in this manner.<\/p>\n

There are an increasing number of books which could be useful for grownups to share with their kids; here are a few of them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Striped Shirts and Flowered Pants<\/span> by Barbara Schnurbush is suitably subtitled \u201cA Story About Alzheimer\u2019s Disease for Young Children.\u201d\u009d This picture book format gently tells the story of a young girl who begins to notice changes in her grandmother\u2019s behavior. With the support of her parents, she learns more about Alzheimer\u2019s and what the future might bring as her grandmother\u2019s disease progresses.<\/p>\n

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Still My Grandma<\/span> by Veronique Van den Abeele focuses on the enduring love a child feels for her grandparent who is now living in a nursing home facility. The final page sums it up:\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s true that she\u2019s not the same person she used to be, but she\u2019s still my Grandma and I love her very much. She loves me too.\u201d\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Singing with Momma Lou<\/span> by Linda Jacobs Altman is a picture book story for a slightly older audience. Opening with nine-year-old Tamika\u2019s reluctance to visit her grandmother in the nursing home, and progressing through her efforts to re-ignite sparks of memory through the use of newspaper clippings and photographs, this story is an inspirational tribute to a participant in the American civil rights movement as well as a story about the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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My Grandma Has Alzheimer\u2019s Too<\/span>, by Joseph Voight, is a ten-year-old boy\u2019s real thoughts about life after his grandmother came to live with his family. Emotional, loving, and \u00a0powerful, this book is honest in its portrayal of life with someone who has Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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Have you been asked about books for kids on this topic? What books have you recommended?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September is World Alzheimer\u2019s Month, an apt time to help raise awareness about this disease. The statistics are devastating — in the United States, for example, 5.4 million individuals in this country live with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. So what does this have to do with our work as children\u2019s librarians? How many preschool\/school-age grandchildren, children, friends & neighbors do you think these 5.4 million people have? How many parents, teachers, and caregivers are struggling with how to open a discussion about this topic with their kids? Many of these adults will reach out to librarians in an effort to find materials which they can use in this manner. There are an increasing number of books which could be useful for grownups to share with their kids; here are a few of them. Striped Shirts and Flowered Pants by Barbara Schnurbush is suitably subtitled \u201cA Story About Alzheimer\u2019s Disease for Young Children.\u201d\u009d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[144,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-childrens-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}