Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words : Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia (Paperback)

from KristiB41

I just started this book yesterday afternoon and am halfway through it. It is wonderful. I worry about how my parents will age and what will life be like each year. I am definitely recommending this book to a few friends and I can't wait to come back and write the final review. I finished this bo...

from pinklady60

Author Kate Whouley shares her experience of managing her mother's slow decline through early stages of Alzheimer's Disease to death. It was sad to see her mother Anne, such an intelligent and independent woman, lose her ability to handle the daily routine of paying bills, household maintenance, ...

from callmejacx

Kate Whouley boldly goes where most of us would never think of going. She courageously, sometimes with sharp honesty, tells it like it is. She does not candy coat her complicated relationship with her mother. She admits her struggles with herself and her mother. There is no hiding her confused fe...

from jbealy

With "Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words", Kate Whouley has written an accessible, sometimes humorous, often times sad, always truthful memoir as co-pilot (with her mom) through the last stages of her mother's life. Watching a loved one's decline is always difficult, but when that loved ...

from Scrabblenut

Kate Whouley has written a brutally honest account of the struggles she faced when she realized her mother could no longer take care of her own affairs and live by herself when she discovers the kitchen in complete disarray and 2 or 3 years worth of unpaid bills. As with all relationships, this m...