Living With Stroke: A Guide for Patients and Their Families

by Richard C. Senelick MD

The fifth edition of Living with Stroke updates this highly popular guide for patients and families. There are 800,000 strokes each year and this book provides survivors and families with the wide variety of information and resources in one location. It has received widespread praise from professionals and laymen for its clarity and readability.

Genres: Nonfiction

294 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2016

Reviews

[Stacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book you never want to have to read. A factual book about what happens before, during and after a stroke.
To be honest, I didn't really even finish the book. I couldn't really stomach it. There are a lot of different outcomes associated with a stroke, and I found this book just kind of made me spiral with grief over the potential for loss. It literally covers everything...
My husband suffered a stroke a few months ago and the pandemic made it really difficult to receive information about what had happened from the doctors. I was given this book by the rehab center, but by then it was kind of too late because we had already lived through most of what the book covered. My husband has aphasia, so we're not entirely certain of what all he has lost. So reading a book about what could possibly be lost kind of made all my coping mechanisms crumble; this book left me feeling very hopeless.
It's probably the most comprehensive book about stroke written for the non-medical community, but I think I'd rather read something on the more optimistic side.

[Paris De Laval · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn’t want to read this but if you know me you know why I feel like I had to.