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Books That Inform, Inspire & Make a Difference

 Explore books from S. R. Hatton Publishing, featuring practical guides, inspiring stories, thoughtful reflections, journals, and meaningful works from multiple authors. 

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IS THERE HOPE AFTER A DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS?

When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia, the world can suddenly feel very small.


The future you imagined disappears. Every forgotten name, missed appointment, personality change, or moment of confusion can begin to feel like confirmation that there is only one direction left to go.


But what if the diagnosis is not the whole story?


Dementia Denied tells the extraordinary true story of Ginger Smith, a retired speech-language pathologist whose cognitive and physical decline became so severe that she was eventually placed on hospice care. Her condition appeared terminal. Her family believed they were preparing to lose her.


Then, against all expectations, Ginger began to improve.


She regained abilities that had seemed gone. Her awareness returned. Her condition changed so dramatically that the experience raised a question her family could no longer ignore:


What had really been happening to her?


That question became the foundation of this book.


Part memoir and part investigation, Dementia Denied follows Ginger’s frightening decline, the decisions made along the way, and the remarkable turnaround that forced a deeper look at dementia, medications, medical conditions, diagnostic uncertainty, and other factors that can sometimes contribute to cognitive impairment.


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Still Skeptical? Ginger tells her story to dementia experts:

Teepa Snow (Positive Approach to Care®)

Teepa Snow (Positive Approach to Care®)

Teepa Snow (Positive Approach to Care®)

In this conversation with internationally recognized dementia educator Teepa Snow, Ginger shares her extraordinary personal experience of severe cognitive decline, hospice care, and the unexpected recovery that later became the foundation of Dementia Denied. Hearing Ginger tell the story in her own words adds a powerful layer to the book and helps explain why her experience raises such important questions about dementia, diagnosis, medications, and what families may want to investigate more closely. 

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Teepa Snow (2nd Interview)

Teepa Snow (Positive Approach to Care®)

Teepa Snow (Positive Approach to Care®)

In this follow-up conversation with dementia educator Teepa Snow, recorded on April 5, 2024—about three years after Ginger returned home from hospice— Ginger revisits her extraordinary recovery and shares what life looked like well beyond the initial turnaround. The interview gives viewers another opportunity to hear Ginger describe her experience firsthand and see for themselves why her story continued to draw the attention of dementia professionals years after she had been expected to die. 

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Steve Gurney (Positive Aging Community)

Teepa Snow (Positive Approach to Care®)

Steve Gurney (Positive Aging Community)

In this May 2023 conversation with Steve, Ginger shares how she went from spending two years bedridden in a nursing home, experiencing severe cognitive and physical decline, to being placed on hospice—and then unexpectedly recovering after her medications were withdrawn. More than two years after returning home, Ginger was again living independently and able to describe her experience from the rare perspective of both a former healthcare professional and a person who had lived through profound cognitive decline herself. 

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Steve Gurney (2nd Interview)

Lori La Bey (Alzheimer's Speaks Radio)

Steve Gurney (Positive Aging Community)

In this March 2024 follow-up conversation with Steve Gurney of the Positive Aging Community, Ginger returns to discuss her remarkable journey several years after leaving hospice. Now 86 and living independently at home, she reflects on the severe cognitive and physical symptoms she experienced, the withdrawal of her medications during hospice, and the gradual recovery that followed. The conversation gives viewers another chance to hear Ginger’s story directly from her—and to see how dramatically different her life became from the prognosis her family once faced. 

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Lori La Bey (Alzheimer's Speaks Radio)

Lori La Bey (Alzheimer's Speaks Radio)

Lori La Bey (Alzheimer's Speaks Radio)

In this conversation with Lori La Bey of Alzheimer’s Speaks, Ginger shares what it was like to experience dementia symptoms from the inside—along with the multiple diagnoses, forced retirement, hospice care, and remarkable recovery that followed. She also discusses medication concerns, the value of support groups, lifestyle changes, and what she learned from living through profound cognitive decline herself. 

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Lori La Bey (2nd Interview)

Lori La Bey (Alzheimer's Speaks Radio)

Lori La Bey (Alzheimer's Speaks Radio)

In this June 2025 follow-up on Alzheimer’s Speaks, Lori La Bey talks with Ginger about her extraordinary journey through a terminal dementia diagnosis and the recovery that followed. Ginger reflects on why she chose to share her story in Dementia Denied, what she wants families to understand about dementia, and some of the misconceptions that can shape how people view a diagnosis. The conversation also includes Ginger’s publisher, S. R. Hatton, and offers a deeper look at how Ginger’s experience became a book intended to encourage greater curiosity, awareness, and hope. 

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Teepa Snow (Pre-Book-Launch Interview)

Teepa Snow (Pre-Book-Launch Interview)

Teepa Snow (Pre-Book-Launch Interview)

In this third conversation with Teepa Snow of Positive Approach to Care®, recorded on May 27, 2025—just two days before the launch of Dementia Denied—Ginger reflects on the extraordinary journey that ultimately became the book. The discussion gives viewers another opportunity to hear Ginger explain her experience firsthand and to see why Teepa has continued to take an interest in her unusual story of severe cognitive decline, hospice care, recovery, and renewed independence. 

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Steve Gurney (Book-Launch Interview)

Teepa Snow (Pre-Book-Launch Interview)

Teepa Snow (Pre-Book-Launch Interview)

In this May 29, 2025 conversation with Steve Gurney of the Positive Aging Community, Ginger marked both her 88th birthday and the launch of Dementia Denied by revisiting the extraordinary story behind the book. She reflects on surviving what had been considered a terminal dementia diagnosis, reclaiming her life after hospice, and why she believes her experience matters for families and caregivers who may feel they have run out of hope or options. 

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Einav Avni (Healing Conversations Podcast)

Einav Avni (Book-Launch Interview on Healing Conversations Podcast)

Einav Avni (Book-Launch Interview on Healing Conversations Podcast)

In this May 2024 interview with Einav Avni on the Healing Conversations podcast, Ginger shares her journey through a terminal dementia diagnosis, the frightening decline that eventually led to nursing-home and hospice care, and the remarkable turnaround that followed. She also reflects on the emotional challenge of rebuilding her identity as her cognitive abilities returned, as well as the important role caregivers played throughout her experience. 

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Einav Avni (Book-Launch Interview on Healing Conversations Podcast)

Einav Avni (Book-Launch Interview on Healing Conversations Podcast)

Einav Avni (Book-Launch Interview on Healing Conversations Podcast)

In this May 29, 2025 follow-up conversation with Einav Avni of the Healing Conversations podcast, Ginger returns to share the story of her full recovery from severe cognitive decline and the extraordinary path that took her from nursing-home and hospice care back to independent living. Recorded on the same day Dementia Denied was launched, the interview gives Ginger an opportunity to reflect on what happened to her, what she learned from the experience, and why she believes families facing dementia deserve reasons to keep asking questions rather than assuming every decline is irreversible 

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✨ The Ultimate Gift of Strength for Every Dementia Caregiver

THE CAREGIVER'S CARE PACKAGE: Dementia Denied + Dealing with Dementia for Caregivers is a heartfelt 2-in-1 book designed for those who give everything and ask for nothing in return. This unique volume combines two transformative dementia books that serve as vital caregiver guides:


🌟 Dementia Denied — a powerful true survivor’s story that embodies hope, resilience, and the journey of reclaiming life after a challenging dementia diagnosis. This memoir is a source of inspiration for caregivers and families, illustrating that even in the toughest times, the human spirit can heal and overcome.


📌 Read the many 5-star reviews: https://mybook.to/DementiaDenied


🌟 Dealing with Dementia for Caregivers — a compassionate and practical resource that offers invaluable caregiver support through real-world advice. This guide is designed to alleviate caregiver burnout, manage challenging behaviors, navigate long care hours, de-escalate crisis situations, and restore peace to your home. It stands out as one of the few dementia caregiver resources written with both clarity and an authentic understanding of the caregiver's journey.


📌 Read all the 5-star reviews: https://mybook.to/DEALINGWITHDEMENTIA


Together, these books provide something truly rare:


✨ Emotional comfort + Practical guidance, all within a single, beautiful volume.


Whether you’re supporting a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s, seeking caregiver stress relief, or simply trying to confront each day without feeling isolated—this book speaks directly to your heart.


The Caregiver’s Care Package is more than just a book.


    * It’s reassurance.

    * It’s hope.

    * It’s a guide packed with over 100 helpful resources to assist you through even the toughest days.


Consider giving it to someone caring for a parent, spouse, or friend. Or gift it to yourself—because your heart deserves care, too. 💜


✨ Now available in paperback on Amazon for only $24.99 (or $15.99 for each book if purchased separately): https://mybook.to/CarePackageBook


Also available as an ebook for just $9.99 here: https://mybook.to/CarePackage-EBook

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More Resources Published by S. R. Hatton

Dealing with Dementia for Caregivers

Dealing with Dementia for Caregivers

Caring for someone with dementia can be exhausting, confusing, and emotionally overwhelming—especially when the “right” response seems to change from one day to the next.


Dealing with Dementia for Caregivers is a practical guide for families who need more than general advice. It focuses on the real-life challenges caregivers face, including difficult behaviors, communication problems, resistance to care, sundowning, safety concerns, changing routines, caregiver burnout, and the progression into later-stage dementia.


The book also examines 62 common caregiving mistakes—not to criticize caregivers, but to help them recognize approaches that can unintentionally increase frustration, conflict, or distress. It offers more workable strategies for responding with greater understanding and less confrontation.


Because caregiving involves far more than hands-on care, the book also includes more than 70 helpful resources covering support services, planning, medical concerns, respite, legal and financial issues, and other practical needs.


This is not a book that promises to make dementia caregiving easy. It is designed to make it more understandable, more manageable, and less isolating—with practical guidance caregivers can actually use.


Also available at Ingram Spark for those in the U.S. & U.K..


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Tales from Memory Lane

Dealing with Dementia for Caregivers

Remember when phones stayed attached to the wall, televisions had only a handful of channels, and children somehow survived entire afternoons without Wi-Fi?


Tales from Memory Lane is a large-print reminiscence book designed to spark memories, conversation, laughter, and connection. Filled with familiar topics from decades past, it invites readers to revisit the everyday experiences that helped shape their lives—from childhood and school days to family traditions, household routines, entertainment, work, holidays, and the little things that once seemed ordinary but now feel wonderfully nostalgic.


Especially well suited for older adults and people living with memory loss, the book can be enjoyed independently or shared with caregivers, family members, friends, or groups. There are no tests, no right answers, and no pressure to remember every detail. The goal is simply to open the door to memories that may still be waiting just around the corner.


Sometimes all it takes is a familiar question, an old-fashioned object, or the reminder of something you haven’t thought about in 50 years to suddenly hear yourself saying:


“Oh, I remember that!”


And once that happens, you never know what story might come next.


Also available at Ingram Spark for those in the U.S. & U.K.:


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Purchase the hardcover HERE.

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The Memory Keeper

The Memory Keeper

Most families have someone who knows all the stories.


Who made the best Sunday dinner. What Grandpa was really like as a young man. Which relative was always getting into trouble. What the family did before air conditioning, smartphones, streaming television, and the luxury of asking Google every question that crossed our minds.


The problem is, those stories are often never written down.


The Memory Keeper is a guided life-story journal created to help preserve the memories, experiences, traditions, family history, and personal details that make one person’s life uniquely their own. Thoughtful prompts make it easier to record everything from childhood memories and school years to relationships, work, holidays, favorite things, lessons learned, meaningful experiences, and the ordinary moments that often turn out to matter most.


It can be completed independently, shared with a caregiver, or used by family members as a conversation starter. That makes it especially meaningful for older adults and families who want to capture stories now instead of someday realizing, “I wish I had asked about that.”


And no, you do not need to remember every date, every name, or exactly what year Aunt Betty bought that hideous avocado-green sofa.


This is not a test.


The goal is to preserve the stories that still matter—the funny ones, the tender ones, the surprising ones, and the details future generations may never know unless someone takes the time to record them.

Because family history is not just made up of major events.


Sometimes it is the recipe nobody wrote down, the nickname no one remembers the origin of, the first car someone loved, the song that always played in the kitchen, or the story everyone has heard a hundred times and will someday desperately wish they could hear one more time.


The Memory Keeper helps make sure those stories do not disappear with the person who remembers them.


Available to order on Amazon at: https://mybook.to/THEMEMORYKEEPER


Or through Ingram Spark (to U.S. & U.K. customers only) at: https://bit.ly/TheMemoryKeeper-IS

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The Comforter Speaks: God’s Whispers of Hope in Times of Suffering


By Dr. Elizabeth A. Gioia


There are seasons when suffering becomes more than something you endure—it becomes the place where you wonder whether God still sees you.


The Comforter Speaks was written for those quiet, aching moments.


This 60-day Christian devotional by Rev. Dr. Elizabeth A. Gioia offers tender encouragement for those walking through chronic pain, illness, grief, emotional heaviness, or a season of spiritual discouragement. Drawn from decades of personal suffering, prayer, and reflection, these devotions invite readers to bring their honest questions, fears, weakness, and sorrow before the Holy Spirit—the Comforter who comes alongside us in the dark.


Each daily reading includes Scripture, a Heart’s Cry, a Comforter Message, a Prayer, and a Reflection, creating space to pause, breathe, listen, and receive God’s love in the very places life hurts most.


The book also includes a Group Reflection Guide, making it a meaningful resource for churches, retreats, support groups, Stephen Ministries, and small group settings.


For anyone who feels weary, wounded, waiting, or alone, The Comforter Speaks offers a gentle reminder: your suffering is seen, your tears are held, and God has not left you in the dark.

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"DEATH BY EPIPHANY" by Dr. Elizabeth A. Gioia

After finishing the publication of her first volume of poems, "The Poet Speaks" in 2023, Dr. Elizabeth Gioia entrusted me with the manuscript for her second poetry collection, "Death by Epiphany: Electrified Thought," which, at the time, was little more than a Word document filled with raw brilliance. From the first read, I knew there was something extraordinary nestled between those lines. What followed was a heartfelt and meticulous journey of transformation. Working side-by-side with Dr. Gioia, we polished each poem, preserved the rhythm of her voice, and brought clarity to her most electric expressions, much like the caregiver support found in dedicated caregiver guides for those navigating challenging journeys.


My goal was to honor her vision while enhancing the flow and resonance of each piece, ensuring it spoke directly to the reader's heart and mind. We collaborated on everything from formatting and structure to the final cover design, shaping a book that stands as both a literary triumph and a deeply personal testament to growth, pain, joy, and discovery—similar to how dementia books can illuminate the complex emotions involved in caregiving.


The poems span two decades of Dr. Gioia's life, tracing her evolution as a poet and thinker from age 40 to 63. The result is a page-turning journey of sudden insight and soul-awakening reflection, where each poem feels like a bolt of divine realization—or what Dr. Gioia affectionately calls a "God-bomb."


It was my great honor to help bring this book to life, and I truly believe readers will be moved by the power, playfulness, and poignancy captured in its pages. "Death by Epiphany" isn't just a book of poems—it's a symphony of thought, a celebration of learning, and a shining example of what happens when fearless creativity meets careful craftsmanship.


Find Dr. Gioia's book on Amazon here: Death by Epiphany

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"THE POET SPEAKS" by Dr. Elizabeth A. Gioia

The Poet Speaks is a deeply personal collection of poetry written over many years, reflecting on faith, relationships, struggle, growth, and the experiences that shaped her life.


The book also has a publishing story of its own. Dr. Gioia had originally tried to bring the manuscript to publication through an online “book publishing” service, but the process created more problems than it solved and left the manuscript needing significant repair. I stepped in to help reorganize, edit, format, and properly prepare the book for publication so that the finished version finally reflected the care and meaning behind her original work.


The result is a thoughtful, intimate collection that allows readers to experience Dr. Gioia’s voice as it was meant to be presented—clearly, professionally, and without the distractions created by a poorly handled publishing process.


Find Dr. Gioia's book on Amazon here: The Poet Speaks

The book "First Hand," surrounded by historical memorabilia.

First Hand: The Unland Diaries and Memoirs of the Revolutionary War, World War II, and Watergate

First Hand by John Unland is a powerful narrative that captures a uniquely American experience through the eyes of three generations. Each generation bears witness to, and plays a role in, pivotal moments in our nation's history. Spanning over two centuries, this trilogy of authentic, first-person accounts connects the founding of America, its defense against tyranny, and provides a rare insider’s perspective on its near-political unraveling.


The story begins with Lt. William McDowell, an officer in the Continental Army who served under General Anthony Wayne during the Revolutionary War. His meticulously kept daily diary from 1781 to 1782 offers a rare, unfiltered view into the hardships, hopes, and heroism of a soldier fighting for independence and the birth of the U.S. Constitution. Painstakingly preserved and transcribed by DAR historian Alice Brants, his words now live on as a legacy for future generations.


Nearly 160 years later, McDowell’s descendant, Lt. James Maxwell Unland, fought to protect the freedoms his ancestor helped to establish. Serving in General Patton’s Third Army during World War II, he fought across Normandy, liberated Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, and helped free Holland from Nazi occupation. His memoir, written decades later at the request of his son, offers deeply personal recollections of a soldier’s life in combat—and the quiet struggles that often reflect the challenges found in caregiver support for veterans returning from war.


The final section takes us to the 1970s amid American political upheaval. John Unland, son of Lt. James Unland and eight generations removed from Lt. McDowell, served in the Nixon White House during the Watergate scandal. His personal diary captures the unraveling of an administration and the shock of witnessing firsthand the near-subversion of the very Constitution his forebears fought to create and defend.


Discovered decades later in boxes long stored away and nearly forgotten, these writings were brought together with great care and purpose. First Hand is not just a commemoration of family history—it stands as a testament to the human experience of patriotism, sacrifice, and civic duty, much like the stories found in essential dementia books that reflect on the importance of legacy through caregiver guides.


Each account—rich with original documents, historical context, personal anecdotes, and photographs—forms a compelling family archive, woven together by a singular thread: the fight to create, defend, and uphold the United States of America.


With dozens and dozens of full-color images, you'll thoroughly enjoy this literary travel back in time.

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3D image of the book "Warm, Dry, and Comfortable" on some rainy outdoor gear.

Warm, Dry, and Comfortable: The Story of Developing the GORE-TEX® Brand

Warm, Dry, and Comfortable is more than a business memoir—it's a front-row seat to the birth of one of the most iconic performance brands in the world. Told with honesty, insight, and humor by John Unland, a key player in the development and marketing of GORE-TEX® fabric during the pivotal 1980s, this book chronicles how a revolutionary product moved from lab discovery to global recognition—not through a single “tipping point,” but through years of grit, creativity, persistence, and bold marketing strategy.


Unland takes readers behind the scenes at W. L. Gore & Associates, revealing how GORE-TEX became synonymous with all-weather protection. Through countless meetings, phone calls, ad campaigns, research studies, and trade shows, he and his team positioned the brand to become a household name across outdoor gear, apparel, and beyond. Along the way, readers meet unforgettable characters—from rock legends and jazz greats to pioneering explorers—and experience quirky, real-life moments, including a dog in the Rose Garden and a melted candy pitch gone wrong.


But this is also a deeply personal journey. After suffering a life-altering stroke, Unland refused to let physical setbacks stop him from telling this story. Over three years, with the help of friends, voice dictation, and Post-It® notes galore, he poured his experience and heart into these pages—not just to honor the GORE-TEX legacy, but to prove that resilience can push any project to the finish line, much like the caregiver support offered in caregiver guides and dementia books for those navigating their own challenges.


Part business case study, part inspiring memoir, and wholly human, Warm, Dry, and Comfortable offers an inside look at how world-class brands are really built—and how even the most groundbreaking achievements begin with the courage to say yes when the opportunity comes knocking.

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Books That Inform, Inspire & Make a Difference


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