Advance Praise for.... Let's Look Together
By Rae-Lynn Cebul Ziegler, OTR/L

"For anyone of any age who wonders what to say or what to do when visiting someone with significant memory loss, these pictures open possibilities for pure pleasure in the moment."
—Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, Education Director, Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center and co-author of The Alzheimer's Action Plan

"From both the perspective of a medical librarian and a person who has experienced a family member with Alzheimer's disease, I find Let's Look Together to be of potentially great value. The book is an especially appropriate tool to include in a medical library collection for the use of health practitioners treating or being trained to treat Alzheimer's and other individuals with memory loss. It is equally useful in a personal setting as a resource for family and friends to use informally to stimulate and engage those with memory loss."
—Suzanne Porter, MA, MSLS, Medical Librarian, Duke University

"This book is an awesome visual cue. It provides individuals living with dementia a failure-free, friendly, emotionally-rich, and familiar way to open up and share in whatever ways they have left. Due to the supportive and open-ended nature of the book and the prompts, this resource can be used over, and over, and over, serving as a re-usable and renewable resource. This is supportive communication at its best."
—Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care & Training Specialist

"As a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alzheimer's Association Cleveland Area Chapter and the daughter of someone who lived with Alzheimer's disease, I keenly appreciate how hard one must work to communicate with a loved one, particularly in the late stages of the disease. Let's Look Together fosters communication with individuals with Alzheimer's disease, encourages self-expression, and permits connections between caregivers and individuals with the disease. I know that caregivers will appreciate this structured approach to maintaining meaningful interactions."
—Nancy Hooker, board member, Alzheimer's Association Cleveland Area Chapter

"This book provides a wonderful vehicle for creating a meaningful connection with a loved one experiencing Alzheimer's or memory loss. It is a gift to both the caregiver and the family member, decreasing a sense of isolation and hopelessness, and replacing it with compassion, love and honoring of shared life experience."
—Jane Koomar, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, Executive Director, Occupational Therapy Associates in Watertown, P.C., and Board President

"Persons with cognitive decline hunger for meaningful connections. Rae-Lynn Ziegler addresses this need with 'two gifts for the price of one' in her picture book that is a rich sensory feast as well as a recipe for side-by-side, emotionally present exchanges between 'best friends' over the shared feelings and emotions of the pictures. Magic moments are sure to follow from this rich interaction."
—Virginia Bell, MSW, co-author, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care

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