Across the world, almost 50 million people have dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings, or friends. And while many countries are learning to cope with aging populations,...
Dementia
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Author:Andrews, June, Dench, Dame JudiSummary: -
Author:Stintzi, John ElizabethSummary:Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen - almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living...
- Author:Rimmer, KellySummary:
After finding disturbing journal pages that suggest her late mother didn't die in a car accident as her father had always maintained, Beth Walsh begins a search for answers.
- Author:Foster, NormSummary:
Donald Wellner knew success when he wrote a hit play thirty-five years ago, but now he's recently separated, living in a small apartment, and promising that he's trying to start a new script. His fortysomething son Blake is a travel...
- Author:Otsuka, JulieSummary:
From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool...
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Author:Devi, GayatriSummary:Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. And imagine how that would change the outlook of the five million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, not to mention their families,...
- Author:Mace, Nancy L.Summary:
Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of...
- Author:Chariandy, DavidSummary:
A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses...
- Author:Vingoe, MarySummary:
Inspired by a quote from the I Ching about how we respond to tragedy - "Some weep, some blow upon flutes" - Mary Vingoe's play is the story of Costas, an elderly Greek shoe repairman whose wife Elena suffers from dementia...
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Author:Rivard, Émilie, Delisle, Anne-ClaireSummary:With tenderness, sensitivity, and humor, Really and Truly explores the effect that dementia has on a young boy named Charlie and his family. Charlie is very close to his grandfather, who loves to tell fanciful stories about pirates,...
- Author:McCabe, PatSummary:
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on PlutoUna Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose...
- Author:Heaberlin, JuliaSummary:
"A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia--and who may or may not be a serial killer--from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been...
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Author:Wright, Richard B.Summary:James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. On a whim, he tries to locate the woman he fell...
- Author:Hulko, Wendy, Wilson, Danielle, Balestrery, JeanSummary:
Dementia is on the rise around the world, and health organizations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand are responding to the urgent need - voiced by communities and practitioners - for guidance on how best to address memory...
- Author:Simmers, KyleSummary:
Pass Me By is a five-book series of queer, rural, Canadian, romantic tragedy. The series follows Ed, a reserved man recently diagnosed with dementia, living in a small northern Canadian town. As Ed's memory declines he loses touch with...
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Author:Hepburn, JanetSummary:When Lillian and Audrey hatch a plot to escape from Tranquil Meadows Nursing Home, “borrow” a car, and spend their hastily planned vacation time driving to destinations west, they aren’t fully aware of the challenges they will face. All...
- Author:Bustard, AnneSummary:
From the author of Blue Skies comes a lively middle grade novel about a young, alien-loving girl trying to clear her grandmother's name in this mystery that has humor, hijinks, and heart in equal measure. It's 1964, the Space Race is...
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Author:Fabry, ChrisSummary:A 2014 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner!Devin Hillis is a struggling documentary filmmaker who stumbles onto the story of a lifetime while interviewing subjects at an Arizona retirement home. One of the employees-a seemingly...
- Author:Veloso, Felix, Veloso, Joanne, Veloso-Tang, RoxanneSummary:
Unless preventative measures are taken a new dementia patient will be diagnosed in Canada every two minutes over the next 30 years.
- Author:Lunde, M.A, Angela M.Summary:
Caring for someone with dementia can be a challenging, heartbreaking experience ... but it can also be rewarding, fulfilling and meaningful. Most dementia caregivers find that the first, and sometimes most difficult step, is accepting...
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