Love Cares Encouraging Words and Stories from an Alzheimer’s Caregiver

One Man’s Prayers and Reflections on Caring for a Loved One

Alzheimer’s. Dementia. Such a diagnosis creates fear and apprehension in the hearts of families whose loved one has received it. What to do? Where to turn? Author Charles Towne had such fears and questions as he faced the long-term prospect of his wife’s illness. Through 20 years of caregiving, he found answers. In Love Cares he shares them with you.

Through short vignettes, Towne details his journey. With honesty and humor, he draws you in as he navigates his challenging life, always relying on Papa God to carry him through the tough times.

Are you or someone you love in the midst of the challenges of caregiving? As you read this book, author Towne wishes you “hope and the realization that your journey, like mine, is purpose driven and, though at times difficult, is likely the most rewarding journey you will ever embark upon.” Because love always cares.

“Love Cares is a candid and profoundly inspirational look at caregivers.” — Harold G. Koenig, MD, from the Foreword, Author, The Healing Connection and Kindness and Joy, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Health Systems

“Love Cares is the Alzheimer’s guide you didn’t know you needed but will be grateful to have found.” — Paula Spencer Scott, Author, Surviving Alzheimer’s: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers

“This beautiful teaching memoir offers an honest, sometimes humorous, yet loving window into the lives of Towne and his beloved Nan as they navigate the changing landscape of her illness.” — Renée Brown Harmon, MD, Author, Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s

NOTES

Charles Towne is an author and newspaper columnist whose life has been and continues to be anything but boring. For his eighty-seventh birthday he celebrated by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 14,000 feet. Charles’s wife Nancy inspired this book. Nothing that had gone before could possibly have prepared him for the cascade of tests that were to come, and that is what this book is about. Twenty-one years of caregiving can present some daunting challenges, many joyous moments, much laughter, a bunch of pain; and many, many victories. Charles poses the question to all of us, “Isn’t that what life on this earth is about?” Charles has adopted as his life’s philosophy that to live fully, laugh uproariously, love passionately, and learn like there is no tomorrow is a formula for long and joy-filled life.