Description

What's it like to be the only son of a widowed mother who is rapidly sinking into the opaque fog of dementia, and who lives alone half a continent away?

Written with compassion and humor, "DEMENTIA DIARY" reads like page turning fiction. If you have watched helplessly as your parent, spouse or friend's identity disappeared into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), this heart-wrenching memoir will touch you deeply. It has won much praise from geriatric care professionals everywhere.

"Dementia Diary: A Caregiver's Journal," is personal, warm and witty. It's also heartbreaking. The story about the author's mother's watch will have you laughing out loud. There is no logical need for a watch battery to be replaced immediately, when an elder is in a nursing facility. There are clocks all over and people to take the elder wherever they need to go. But they must have their watches. The watch story is just one of the many - nearly universal - stories the author offers the reader that will have you in stitches (and sometimes in tears).

There are many dementias other than the well-known Alzheimer's. Each is different and yet the same. It's good to get the word out that all dementia is not Alzheimer's, yet all caregivers face similar challenges..