The Alzheimer Society Grey Bruce is examining the challenges of being a care partner with author Mike Barnes to talk about his new book as well as offering speaker Sandra Hong on The Power of Support.

The Perspectives of a Care Partner event is set for Friday, March 8, 2019 from 1:00 - 3:00 at the Plex in Port Elgin.

Be With: Letters to a Caregiver draws on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s. Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace—and, ultimately, inspiration.

Meant to be a companion in waiting rooms, on bus routes, or while a loved one naps, Be With is a dippable source of clarity for harried readers who might only have time for a few lines or paragraphs. Mike Barnes writes with sensitivity and grace about fellowship, responsibility, and joyful relatedness—what it means to simply be with the people that we love.

Contact the Alzheimer Society Grey-Bruce office for more information and to reserve your spot. www.alzheimer.ca/greybruce

source: media release, Alzheimer Society Grey Bruce