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For Immediate Release
Forget Me NotWriting My Way Through Alzheimer’s By Gloria Marshall
How do you keep from losing your mind while your husband is losing his?
Alzheimer afflicts an estimated 12 million people worldwide. By the year 2050, 45 million may become victims of this horrible illness. This estimate stems from the increasing number of elderly people, thereby threatening a worldwide epidemic. At this moment there is no known cure. How do the relatives of those afflicted with this most common form of dementia cope?
As a writer, Gloria Marshall focuses on the clash between fantasy and reality. After a short stint as a writer for the soap opera “As the World Turns,” Marshall’s life as the wife of an Alzheimer’s patient had soap opera quality as she faced dramatic episodes when she visited her husband at his care facility. Nat, her husband of 55 years, suffered from Alzheimer for ten agonizing years.
Forget Me Not, Marshall’s new book, is based on her personal experience coping with the three stages of Alzheimer. Forget Me Not is a journal written by someone who, without a script to follow, was forced to improvise as she went along and tackle the daily tasks a caretaker of an Alzheimer’s patient has to endure.
When Gloria Marshall was writing scripts for “As the World Turns,” she was provided with a breakdown of actions. She would outline grandiose plot plans to embroider the head writer’s story line and quickly learned she had to improvise to meet the weekly deadline. Spontaneity was the name of the game. Deal with the moment. Years later, this prepared her for her role as caretaker of an Alzheimer patient, where communicating skills, patience, love, and understanding became the new script she would have to follow. Gloria Marshall lives in Arizona, where she has resided in the last 30 years.
FORGET ME NOT is available through the publisher, Inkwell Productions, LLC and distributors: Ingram’s and Baker & Taylor. Gloria Marshall is available for speaking engagements and book signings.
Forget Me Not Writing My Way Through Alzheimer’sISBN# 0-9749701-6-6 $14.95
About Inkwell Productions Inkwell Productions is the “New Face of Publishing”. This full service publishing company not only features books by experienced award-winning authors, but also assists first time writers on their journey through the writing and publication process. Inkwell Productions was founded in 1997 and now features over forty titles in print.
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Victoria Richards Sales Director (480)481-6036 victoria.richards@inkwellproductions.com
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