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Jacqueline Marcell's nightmare began the day her elderly father pulled two disintegrating hand towels out of his kitchen garbage and threw them in her face _ all because she had replaced them with new ones.
In her self-published book "Elder Rage" (Impressive Press, $19.95), Marcell describes the months before she knew that Alzheimer's disease was making her father violently angry. She didn't know why her father, with whom she'd always had a close relationship, suddenly seemed to hate her.
Several years ago Marcell's father, charged with taking care of her ailing mother, started throwing tantrums that sometimes escalated into violence. On top of that, he ...