Adult Nonfiction Dementia Resources

Kay has Dementia. In 2021 sisters Stephanie and Christine Brown embarked on a road trip across Australia with their mother Kay. They didn't want to put their mother in a home so decided to do something different. They wanted to give her adventures, love & happiness while she could still enjoy it ...

The essential guidebook to help in every aspect of your journey, whether dementia affects your loved one, friend or people you are caring for. What is dementia? Many of us live in fear of it, imagining the horror of losing our memories and our identities. But it does not need to terrify us. A goo...

A powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, in The Long Goodbye, Keri Kitay charts her family's poignant and devastating journey after their mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. When Keri Kitay's mother, Terry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, noth...

It's time to redefine dementia. What if it wasn't all bad, or could teach us valuable lessons about life? As I am sure you know from media reporting over recent years, diagnosis rates for dementia are rising all over the world and so, it would seem, is fear and misunderstanding around the disease...

"How do I know if I have dementia, and how will I live with it if I do? Can people with dementia consent to sex? Can they choose euthanasia for their future selves? And can we prevent or push back its onset? Chances are you know someone with dementia, but how well do you really understand the con...

A scrupulous doctor's all-consuming search for the cure to her father's Alzheimer's, leads her to a discovery she did not expect. This is the sequel to Dr Helena's first autobiographical book In Search of My Father, about being thrown into caring for her estranged father after her mother dies. Th...

You left the doctor's surgery before you could ask the things you really wanted to know. You've googled your question about dementia and had 75 answers, all contradicting each other. You asked your best friend - but they looked at you strangely. You have so many questions, but no idea where to st...

To come to terms with her mother's dementia, writer Suzanne Finnamore's groundbreaking new memoir conceptualizes dementia as an actual, albeit rather magical, place, like the Acropolis or Yonkers...a place where beloved and ancient queens and kings retire, where linear time doesn't exist, and the...

As a cardiologist, Sandeep Jauhar is trained to think logically to solve medical problems, but there are no miracle drugs to cure his father's dementia. For years Jauhar has watched his father undergo a distressing transformation. Once a prominent research geneticist and author, now he would repe...

The last book from bestselling author and advocate Wendy Mitchell Wendy Mitchell doesn't fear anything anymore. After her diagnosis of young-onset dementia in 2014, all of Wendy's old fears - the dark, animals - melted away. What more was there to be afraid of when she faced her worst fear: losin...