What Dementia Teaches Us About Love

Name: What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780141986432
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By Nicci Gerrard

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What Dementia Teaches Us About Love by Nicci Gerrard explores the profound impact of dementia on individuals and their loved ones. Through a blend of personal narratives and expert insights, the book examines the emotional and societal challenges posed by the condition, while also highlighting the resilience, understanding, and deep connections that can arise in its wake. It's a thought-provoking reflection on the nature of memory, identity, and the enduring power of love.
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You might appreciate this book if you're interested in exploring the emotional and practical dimensions of caring for loved ones with dementia. Nicci Gerrard offers a heartfelt exploration of how dementia can reshape relationships and offer profound insights into love, memory, and what it means to truly know another person.

What Dementia Teaches Us About Love

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A powerful and moving exploration of the terrible illness that touches millions of lives.

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 is it to be oneself, and what is it to lose one's self? Who are we when we are not ourselves, and where do we go?

What Dementia Teaches Us About Love is an attempt to understand through a touching exploration of dementia, structured around the stages of the disease from the outside and, as far as possible, from the inside as well. Full of people's stories, both sad and optimistic, it is a journey into the dusk and then the darkness - and then out on to the other side, where, once someone is dead, a life can be seen whole again.

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What Dementia Teaches Us About Love by Nicci Gerrard is highly praised for its combination of personal insight and philosophical inquiry into the nature of self and humanity. Reviewers have described it as moving, powerful, and illuminating, drawing attention to the often hidden world of dementia. It is considered essential reading for its empathetic approach and its exploration of the profound challenges dementia poses to individuals and society.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141986432

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 203g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

As well as being a novelist, Nicci Gerrard is a journalist, a campaigner and a humanist celebrant. In 2016 she won the Orwell Prize for Journalism, for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils', for a piece exploring the 'language' of dementia. Following her father's terrible final year and his death in November 2014, she and her friend Julia Jones founded John's Campaign, which insists that the carers of people with dementia have the same right as parents of sick children to accompany them when in hospital. The campaign, which seeks to make care for those who are vulnerable and powerless more compassionate, began in a kitchen but is now a national movement, recognised by NHS policy makers, by charities, by nurses and doctors and carers. Four hundred hospitals have already signed up to the campaign.

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