What Dementia Teaches Us About Love

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Pub Date 04 Apr 2019 | Archive Date 11 Sep 2019

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A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse

'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 truthful, humane book is an attempt to understand. 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 in care to the families trying to make sense of this 'incomprehensible de-creation of the self'. It 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?

A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse

'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our...


Advance Praise

“Essential reading about love, life and care” Kate Mosse

“Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book” Andrew Marr

“Ranges widely and wisely, raising questions about what it is to be human and facing truths too deep for tears” Blake Morrison

“Evocative and powerful, shining a light on a world which is often hidden and misunderstood” Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England

“Essential reading about love, life and care” Kate Mosse

“Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book” Andrew Marr

“Ranges widely and wisely, raising questions...


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ISBN 9780241347454
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 272

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