When Can I Go Home Virtual Book Tour

Oct. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Joseph Sivak is taking his book "When Can I Go Home"  on virtual book tour starting October 25.  He will be making various stops doing author interviews and guest blogs discussing his book.  If you have a family member or know someone who is dealing with Alzheimer's,  you're not going to want to miss this tour.  Follow Joe throughout his tour,  learn about this fantastic book and the disease,  how to cope and deal with living with Alzheimer's.  Leave a comment at his stops for your chance to win a copy of When Can I Go Home.

About Joe Sivak:

A board certified adult psychiatrist with twenty years of experience in direct patient care. He has taught and lectured in the United States and internationally in the areas of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mood disorders, and chronic suicidal ideation.

He completed medical school at Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia,  and Residency Training at the University of Rochester. Dr. Sivak has served on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Alzheimer's Association and the Northland Chapter of the American Red Cross and hosted a weekly mental health Radio Program for eight years on KUWS- Wisconsin Public Radio. Currently Dr. Sivak serves on the legislative committee of the   Minnesota Medical Association, is a assistant professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth College of Pharmacy and is in full time private psychiatric in Duluth.

About When Can I Go Home:

The true life account of a young man living with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in a parent. The disease was diagnosed in his mother when the author was seventeen years old in 1979, long before Alzheimer's disease was a household term.

The book candidly traces with graphic detailed description and dialogue the course of the fatal illness.  The emotional issues of such pivotal events as the loss of autonomy of driving a car and entry into a nursing home are experienced through the eyes of a young son. From a concurrent viewpoint Alzheimer's is explained with the wisdom of a 21st century physician who has personally experienced the emotional anguish, and thus the fact-based journey is a truly unique dual-perspective Alzheimer's memoir. The story juxtaposes the active uphill battle to become a doctor set against the backdrop of the passive helpless struggle of losing a parent to the disease      

The narrative provides explicit commentary on the modern plight of the physician and  the global connection family members of an Alzheimer's victim painstakingly share. The unusual, seldom before elicited insights of the dual-perspective vigorously address universal issues such as coping, hope,  futility, humiliation and societal bias toward the disease throughout the text.

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