I have this client who is 90 yrs old with macular degeneration who cannot read or watch TV. He’s a very lonely widower, a retired pediatric cardiovascular surgeon (so he’s highly intelligent and previously led a very interactive life working with patients, medical staff, etc). Now he’s homebound and extremely lonely. So he’s asked me to find books (audio in his case) that will be inspirational. He needs something uplifting, something to help him face each day ahead, maybe something reflective too. He’s NOT religious so that limits the “inspirational” category. I don’t think that fiction, biography/memoirs, or poetry would be fitting. I guess the self-help category would be the target label.
by Cornell90-92
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As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
How to Find Courage When All You Have is You by Arlene Evangelista
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the end of sight. The memoir of a man with retinitis pigmentosa, which presents basically opposite of macular degeneration in that you lose peripheral vision first. Read the publishers blurb to him to see if he’s interested. As a person with RP currently experiencing vision loss, it was sobering but helpful to read as I saw his ability to have his life go on and embrace the new reality