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Interview with Jacqueline Marcell
author of: Elder Rage–or–take My Father...Please!
How To Survive Caring For Aging Parents (I)
Visit the author's site at: http://www.elderrage.com/
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Vocabulary:

to author
elder
rage
puh-leez! = please
to survive
aging
at your wits' end
unreasonable
demands
to be obsessed with
to refuse
counseling
depressed
manipulative
distrustful
critical
hostile
riveting
compassion
humor
to realize
you're not alone with
countless
frustrations
conflicting emotions
definitely
pleasure
aggressive
assertive
to step in and V
desperately
to get old
mad as heck
elder care system
for a solid year
to turn to
to be quoted as saying
mission
poster child
baby-boomer
to deal with
to take a year of hell
of what I went through
out there
to deliver a message
sooner than later
to boil down to
cooperative
caregiver
medications
hog-tie 'em (them)
gag 'em
a fun read
a tough subject
Erma Bombeck
Woody Allen
dementia
The Far Side (一個另類的漫畫)
 self-help
to cope with
to strike one as
illogical
irrational
Ph. D.
M.D.
diagnose
to treat
properly
to go about
absolutely
Alzheimer's
irritability
raging
confusion
memory
subtle
intermittent
to go from x to y overnight
early warning signs
normal
dementia
to go = to say
association
geriatric
specialist
neurologist
to have a heart for
to ignore
to look out for
over and over
pencil sharpener
stapler
closet
to irritate
to end up
over that
to get trapped
Who does?
to happen to have
to get laid off
sexually
to have the luxury
to devote time to
in real life
to be available
to go up there
deplorable condition
hand towels
trash
to throw in s.o.'s face
waste
what came out of it
out there
to go through
hard times
to lead you to
harrowing
 nightmare
advocate
awareness
forum
not interested
passion
mission
gosh
attack
choke
to lay a hand on
scary
horrible
to adore
to be astounded
raging temper
to get worse
exacerbates
technical theory of aging
the 'more so' theory of aging
to be more so
to get along with
180 degrees
necessarily
some form of
broad
umbrella term
to make up for about...
specialists
confusion
memory loss
senility
to slow down
Band-Aids = OK棒
'alphabeta'
elderrage.com
early stage
mild
supervision
full-time care
to be left alone
spouse
to go down
death rate
stress
astronomical
adult child
career
a whole nother lifestyle =
  a completely different lifestyle
  (from 'another')
warning signs
in retrospect
directions
suspicions
nasty
steal
intermittently


Listening comprehension questions:
1. What three things does the word 'rage' in the book title refer to?
2. What is a 'poster child' for a specific cause?
3. How does the author say her life could have been different if she'd known what she knows now?
4. It's 'easy' to take care of what kind of elderly loved one?
5. How is Marcell's book different from other books on the same subject?
6. Why did the author miss the 'early warning signs' of Alzheimer's in her father?
7. How did the author happen to have the time to look after her aging parents?
8. What 'illogical, irrational' things did the author notice in her father's behavior that she identified as the beginnings of dementia?
9. What can sometimes happen when something 'bad' happens to you, in the author's view?
10. What violent behavior did the author's father engage in as his dementia progressed?
11. What's the 'more so' theory of aging?
12. How many people get some form of dementia by age 65? By age 85?
13. For how long are the early warning signs often ignored?
14. What percent of dementia cases are due to Alzheimer's?
15. What can modern medications do for people suffering from dementia?
16. Find the correct spellings of the three medicines mentioned by Marcell by finding them on the author's Web site.
17. What does 'stage two' of dementia require, and how long does it typically last?
18. What often happens to caregivers of dementia patients?
19. What were some of the warning signs in the author's father that she missed at first?
20. What's one good preventive for dementia?



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