Speaker & Author Sonia Discher shares her powerful and honest approach to planning and caring for a loved one with Early Onset Alzheimer’s.

Dealing with  Early Onset Alzheimer’s- Love, Laughter & Tears

Thursday, April 6, 2023

6 pm

Dealing with Early Onset Alzheimer’s: Love, Laughter & Tears is Sonia Discher’s heartbreaking but empowering story of caring for her husband, Steve. The story follows Steve’s diagnosis through treatment, care and his passing. Sonia provides a look behind the curtain of this terrible sickness to reveal small and large things she did to understand the disease, advocate for her husband, care for her family and preserve her sanity throughout a confusing and sad time.

About the Book:

Dealing with Early Onset Alzheimer’s: Love, Laughter & Tears is Sonia Discher’s heartbreaking but empowering story of caring for her husband, Steve.

The story follows Steve’s diagnosis with Early Onset Alzheimer’s through treatment, care and his passing. Sonia provides a look behind the curtain of this terrible sickness to reveal small and large things she did to understand the disease, advocate for her husband, care for her family and preserve her sanity throughout a confusing and sad time.

The author achieves the goal of reminding readers that they are not alone. Not only does she lay out functional, day-to-day tips about early warning signs, medication levels, and how to address doctors, nurses and other professional caregivers (among many other areas such as long-term care and hospital stays) are some of the valuable examples included in this personal story.

Based on the struggles and challenges they faced during his illness, Sonia decided to write her first book “Dealing with Early Onset Alzheimer’s; Love, Laughter & Tears”.

About the Author:

Sonia moved from England to Canada in 1969. After schooling, she spent the majority of her career working as a Project Control Coordinator, scheduling and monitoring the engineering jobs across the site at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories. Sonia has a bubbly personality with an infectious laugh, loves to be around family and friends and meet new people. When her husband was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s, Sonia dedicated her time trying to find a way to keep him alive and give him the best quality of life possible. Steve passed away in 2017.

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