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Dementia: The One-Stop Guide: Practical advice for families, professionals, and people living with dementia and Alzheimer's Disease by June Andrews (view source)
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Worldwide there are probably as many as 44.4 million people who suffer from dementia and many times that number of family, friends, carers and relatives who are affected by what is happening to the sufferer. There's no cure, but it's not terminal and the symptoms (memory loss would seem to be the most common, but in some cases , there are hallucinations, sexual or verbal disinhibition, not being able to work things out, difficulty in learning something new, finding your way about, or coping with the normal symptoms of agingageing) affect everyone involved. If you talk to people who are aging ageing then it's not uncommon for them to say that they'd rather have cancer than dementia as you're unlikely to be an endless burden on other people.
Professor June Andrews is an international dementia care expert and she's written her 'one-stop guide' with the intention of making it easy for sufferers and those about them to cope with what's happening ''and'' to navigate the systems which the NHS and local bureaucracy will throw in front of them. I'm always sceptical when I see something described as 'one-stop guide' as they usually turn out to be lacking in some areas, but having read this book (in a couple of sittings - it was an easy and engrossing read) I'm struggling to think of anything which I think should have been included, but wasn't.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
For thoughts about care at the end of life , we can recommend [[Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life by Eric Lindner]]. You might also find [[One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman]] thought-provoking. For fiction on this subject [[Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey]] is difficult to better. for a personal account of living with dementia, try [[Stammered Songbook: A Mother's Book of Hours by Erwin Mortier and Paul Vincent (translator)]].