This truthful, humane book is an attempt to understand dementia. It is filled with stories, both moving and optimistic: from those living with dementia to those planning the end of life, from the scientists unlocking the mysteries of the brain to the therapists using art and music to enrich the lives of sufferers, from the campaigners battling for greater compassion.
Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures. If it's not you or me, it's someone we love.
After her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions of us, yet which we still struggle to speak about. What does dementia mean, for those who live with it, and those who care for them?
This book explores memory, language, identity, ageing and the notion of what it truly means to care. And it asks, how do we begin to value those who become old, invisible, forgotten? What do we owe them, and each other as humans? What, in the end, really matters?
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241347454
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 392 g
Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 27 mm
How can you love someone when they no longer know who you are? When they don't remember you and they are distressed by your presence?
This is a very moving and important book. Treating dementia is one of the...
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What Dementia Teaches Us About Love by Nicci Gerrard, who is one of my favourite authors, is every bit as beautiful and well-written as I had known it would be. To witness the gradual decline of someone you love is... More
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