Dementia Awareness Week!

22-05-2013

Carey Mulligan, star of The Great Gatsby, tells Channel 4 News about her plans to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s, and says there is a “real problem” with how we treat the elderly in the UK.

Self–help Books

Alzheimer’s and other Dementias (At Your Fingertips)

Harry Cayton, Dr Nori Graham and Dr James Warner, 2008

An informative guide on Alzheimer’s and other forms
of dementia.

Living with Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr Tom Smith, 2005

This layman’s guide to Alzheimer’s disease covers its possible
causes, effects, diagnosis, the pattern of its progression and
possible treatments. There is a large section on the needs of
the carer with practical advice about how to get help.

And Still the Music Plays: Stories of People with Dementia

Graham Stokes, 2008

Clinical psychologist Graham Stokes uses storytelling,
underpinned by years of experience, to improve our
understanding of dementia.
 

Novels and Memoirs

Keeper: Living with Nancy, A journey into Alzheimer’s

Andrea Gillies, 2009

The book chronicles the author’s experience of caring
for her mother–in–law, Nancy, as her Alzheimer’s disease
accelerates, while running a bed and breakfast, being
a mother of three children and failing to write a novel.
(The Orwell Prize winner 2010)

Have the Men Had Enough?

Margaret Forster, 2004

A novel about a grandmother’s decline from family carer,
to one totally reliant on care from her family.

The Lighted Rooms

Richard Mason, 2009

A story that follows the heroine’s senile dementia. 

Losing Clive to Younger Onset Dementia: One Family’s Story

Helen Beaumont 2008

A personal account from the wife of Clive, a sufferer of
Younger Onset Dementia.

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean, 2007

A novel set around the siege of Leningrad about memory
and imagination with descriptions of Alzheimer’s.

Remind Me Who I Am, Again

Linda Grant, 1999

Memoir of a mother losing her battle with dementia.

Scar Tissue

Michael Ignatieff, 1994

A personal story based on the narrator’s account of
his mother’s death from Alzheimer’s.

Still Alice

Lisa Genova, 2010

Acclaimed novel about Alzeimer’s Disease.

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