Dementia Fiction

Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father's real estate agency, she hopes to pick up the pieces and get her life back together. Her sister, Liz, a fiercely independent college professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison's second wedding before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world's newest religion.

“Two generations of dementia are enough!” Robert Glickman declares in his quest to die with dignity and the likelihood he will be next. To that end, he uses his grandson’s sixth-grade quiz book, a locked away metal box, and a secret weapon that eventually comes back to haunt him. In the meantime, he is embroiled in the lives of other residents.

Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer's, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace - and, ultimately, inspiration.

Fifteen years ago, 35-year-old Henry Carr vanished from the yard outside his parents' house, on a run-down street outside Manchester. Today, a cold-case podcast has brought the disappearance to international attention. A young journalist, Ruth, knows that she might be able to get the locals to open up. After all, she used to be one of them. But returning won't be easy. There are many reasons why Ruth fled, six years earlier. There’s no evidence, no lead, no body. Yet Henry’s elderly and dementia suffering mother, whispers that he was killed and buried on the street they call home.

Wonders in Dementialand™ is an imaginative account about dementia written by a painter, who sees life quite differently than most people. It is profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive. Violet is an independent, godly-catholic woman living in Chicago. Suzka, her daughter, is a painter living in a converted warehouse in California. Suzka is the last person one would think to be a caregiver, however, during a family crisis, she is suddenly left in charge of Violet’s welfare.

Did you know that there are five million people in the US living with Alzheimer's and by 2050, there are projected to be 14 million? Spreading awareness of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia is desperately needed. There are many more people with these diseases than other diseases that get much more money approved for research from the government or from donations. This book was written to bring better awareness that people with dementia matter. Plus, the self-sacrificing hardworking caregivers who take care of spouses also matter.

What if the dreaded world of Alzheimer's was also a world of emotional discovery? Eugenia Zukerman's poetry and simple prose, both heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational, ushers the listener into her world as she unflinchingly examines familial loyalties, moments from her past and present, and the need to face an uncertain future due to the diagnosis of a condition that she truly hopes "will remain unnamed."

This heart-wrenching story traces the lives of a dementia victim and his caring family as they descend through the devastating journey and ultimate end that is caused by Alzheimer's disease. Using personal experience and that of others, the author explores in graphic detail the pain and confusion of Pat, the victim, and the selfless love of his wife Carol and daughter Mandy. The book is intended to help prepare listeners, who may well become carers, know what to expect and to raise general awareness of a condition that receives little attention compared to its impact on the lives of men and women throughout the world.

This groundbreaking anthology presents 40 narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer’s and other dementias on patients, as well as their caregivers and family. Deeply personal, recounting the wrenching course of a disease that kills a loved one twice - first they forget who they are, and then the body succumbs - these stories also show how witnessing the disease and caring for someone with it can be powerfully transformative, calling forth amazing strength and grace.

Has Mr. Wrong Ever Felt So Right? When Kitty first encounters a buck-naked Fred, his clumsy attempts at flirting set off alarm bells. Sure, he's cute in a maddening way, clearly single, and brimming with wild ideas for reckless fun. But he's not her type...right? As Kitty's world unravels with her beloved Nanna's declining health, Fred unexpectedly tags along. Slowly, an endearing new side of Fred emerges, making Kitty question everything. Is this frustrating man's talent for trouble just a ruse hiding a loyal heart? Thrown together by crisis, Kitty finds her defences crumbling as Fred's ...

It’s morning at Meadow Brook Nursing Home. During the last 10 months, this has been my mother’s abode. Most days, I feel it is mine, too. Life, as I have known it, is a blur. Alzheimer’s has taken mother from herself, her family, and her friends. It has demanded a grit and grace in our everyday lives beyond human comprehension. I know that I must tell her story - which ultimately is my story, too - with hope that it may bring a degree of peace to the hearts of those who have walked, or will walk, the same road.

Stanley Drummond is dreaming the worst kind of dream; the kind that never ends. Trapped in his subconscious and unable to find his way back to the real world, Stanley discovers that he can change his surroundings to at least make himself more comfortable while he waits for the alarm-clock to wake him up. Denise Kawaii's tragic novelette uncovers the lonely and confusing existence of a nursing home patient lost in the dreams and memories of a life once lived. A Giraffe in the Room inspires readers to cherish the memories of those they love, before the dreams they inhabit vanish.

Sometimes, going back is the only way to move on... With an engagement ring on her finger and a New York career to die for, life in the big apple is sweet for Emily Forrester... Until she is called back to Little Duxbury, the picture-perfect English village where she grew up – though it was anything but idyllic for the tearaway teenager. Her estranged stepfather, a former high-court judge, is ill and her stepsisters are demanding help. It’s just a week, Emily tells herself as she swaps stilettos for wellies, power lunches for 4G blackspots, and polished fiancé Brett for sexy new ...

Grandpa Bunny is behaving strangely. He forgets where he put the carrots. He sits in a flowerpot and doesn’t know why. And one day, he even forgets Ben’s name. What is going on with Grandpa Bunny? The doctor says it’s dementia, but what is that? And what can Ben do to help his grandfather?

"Sie müssen sich mit dem Gedanken vertraut machen, dass Ihre Frau die Alzheimersche Krankheit hat." Diese erschütternde Diagnose eines Arztes bekamen Muriel und Robertson McQuilkin vor vielen Jahren zu hören. Dabei hatte doch eigentlich nur Muriels Gedächtnis ein wenig nachgelassen ... Aber unaufhaltsam wird die erst 55-jährige Muriel immer verwirrter und hilfloser. Robertson gibt seinen Beruf als Universitätspräsident auf, um seiner Frau ungeteilte Aufmerksamkeit widmen zu können.

В книге собраны личные истории людей, которым поставили диагноз «болезнь Альцгеймера» и которые смогли излечиться от ее симптомов. Герои книги расскажут, какую роль в лечении играет метаболизм, физическая нагрузка и диета.

Hope Chandler isn’t looking for love. Far from it After learning her husband dusted his desk with his admin, Hope is determined to start fresh. After a quick divorce, she finds herself a new job and a new life far away from her philandering husband in the small seaside town of Grey’s Harbor. If that wasn’t impulsive enough, Hope decides to rent a houseboat and accept a dinner invitation from her landlord, the handsome, yet haunted Bridger Cadigan. Making new friends, living on a boat on the river, and juggling suitors helps Hope to move on from the pain of her divorce, but something ...

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many “incidents.”

1959: Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of her own, but there are thoughts Grace cannot share with anyone in the months after childbirth. Instead she pours her deepest fears into the pages of a notebook, hiding them where she knows husband, Patrick, will never look. When Grace falls pregnant again, she turns to her sister, Maryanne, for help.

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