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Preventing Her Shutdown is an inside look at what an ongoing caregiver spouse goes through in my desperate effort to keep my wife with Alzheimer's "connected". I am not an expert or an authority on Alzheimer's. I never pretended to be. I am simply an ordinary “John Doe” caregiver, husband sharing my experiences living and caring for my wife with Alzheimer's. We have been married 43 years and I am trying to not let go and avoid her shutdown.

This book started out as a daily diary of how my wife´s behavior was dramatically changing and how I was affected and began to relate to her differently. Writing helped me ventilate my deepest emotions and reactions in private as they were too personal to express to others. Somehow writing "alleviated" my continuous sorrow. Soon this diary turned into this book.

No one has the "key" as to how to respond to Alzheimer's radical behavioral changes. There are no two profiles alike. I describe these dramatic changes with my wife who is in the beginning of the advanced stages. My reactions have always been intuitive in my desperate attempts to keep her “connected” with me, family and her surroundings.

Real time experiences and actions "racing against the Alzheimer's clock" to keep her communicating and interacting every day, even though she no longer speaks are detailed in my never-ending battle to prevent her shutdown.