Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat

Making Rounds With Oscar (2010-07-27) : 5/5
This is an excellent book which I gave as a gift to a friend whose mother suffers with dementia. I actually heard this book on NPR's Radio Reader and bought it specifically for her. It gives insight to families of patients and how they handled their parent or friend, how it affected their family life and their coping mechanisms. I found it very helpful and my friend is buying copies for her family to read. She was very grateful for the information. Thank you.
Oscar: Ordinary indeed! (2010-07-22) : 5/5
A marvelous book that will make you smile and laugh, and grimace and cry. You don't need to be a cat lover to enjoy this book, either! A great book that is a must for those with loved ones in nursing homes and hospices. This will help with questions and concerns regarding end of life situations, and a great cat to help you through it all.
Awesome book (2010-07-21) : 5/5
This is an awesome book even if like Dr Dosa you aren't really a cat lover or a believer in their powers to help their human family.






Beautifully Done! (2010-07-15) : 5/5
I put this book on my Mother's Day wish list mostly due to my being a cat lover. As someone else has commented, Oscar himself does not appear specifically in most of the pages of the book, but the rest of the content was so very interesting, that I didn't mind. I know several persons who have elderly parents suffering from dementia or Alzheimers Disease, and this book did a great job of portraying what they and their family members cope with on a daily basis. I recently loaned the book to a man whose father just entered a nursing home's Alzheimer's wing and he also found it very interesting and educational. The patients' families' stories were interesting, poignant and extremely moving. It is a very good read.
Great book (2010-07-14) : 4/5
Really easy read and a great book about how animals can be so inspiring and therapeutic. I really enjoyed the book :)