ASIN: B00MH5LSZC
Publisher: Quotidian Books
Pages: 125
Did you know that history is being rewritten in your neighborhood?And it’s happening in surprising ways.People without dementia are taking care of people who have dementia. And they are experiencing that time differently and telling those stories differently than they were initially told over twenty years ago when the subject began to grab the national consciousness.Inside neighborhood homes traditions and long-held opinions are being questioned. Minds are being changed and lives improved because of the shift in thinking about dementia care and how to react to the diagnosis that someone you love has it.That awakening is happening to people very easily dismissed as caregivers, and it’s happening because of heroic neighbors who are winding down in their lives from a condition called dementia.There is a slow head-shaking moan of sorrow that erupts automatically at the sound of that word. ...
