
The 36-Hour Day
A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss
$39.75
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2025
Summary
With over 4 million copies sold, the best-selling guide to understanding and caring for people with dementia is now redesigned, revised, and updated!
For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book’s authoritative and compassionate approach to care features…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421452463 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1421452464 |
| Author: | Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book |

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Critics Review
This book is an excellent and highly practical resource for its intended audience of family caregivers, blending clear, compassionate writing with real-world guidance that most caregivers find immediately useful in everyday situations.
—Julie Cones, AD, RN, CDP, IPC (University of Missouri), 2026, © Doody’s Review Service
Nancy L. Mace
Nancy L. Mace, MA, is retired. She was a consultant to and member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer’s Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is professor emeritus in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The author of Is It Alzheimer’s? 101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia and The Why of Things, he was the founding director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry and the first holder of the Richman Family Professorship for Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases.
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