This book is for families who daily face the Alzheimer's disease challenge - as victims, as caregivers, or as concerned loved ones. Families who learn to strengthen and "manage" the family system will find more effective ways to anticipate family care challenges and opportunities, to mobilize and optimize family strengths and resources, and to maintain overall family well-being. This systems and values perspective (grounded in the discipline of family systems therapy) seeks to help families develop an adaptive, learning family system that proactively plans for change and effectively meets shifting and changing care challenges — while preserving (even enhancing) overall family cohesion, solidarity, unity, and overall well-being. (Minneapolis: North Ridge Press)