Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything (Paperback)

from Roarer

Although not a comfortable read, this is a valuable account of the challenges of supporting a loved-one living with dementia, with the impossibly difficult choices, the daunting reversal of roles, the indignities, the strains on the family, the exhaustion, &c. At times it seemed intrusive, but as...

from m.belljackson

where memories go delivers many powerful messages, from being alert to earn signs of dementia (absence of curiosity, blank stare, changes in writing, loss of short term memory) to the dramatic changes still needed in care and treatments. While we waste trillions of dollars in wars, outer space, a...

from mimal

bookshelves: published-2014, radio-4, nonfiction, mental-health, fradio, biography, winter-20132014, those-autumn-years, families Read from February 01 to 07, 2014 BOTW BBC description: 'If dementia were a country it would be the world's 18th largest economy, somewhere between Turkey and Indonesi...