Dementia Widow: A Memoir about Love, Death, and Survival - Paperback
by Fay Martin
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Iguana BooksISBN-13:9781771807562ISBN-10:1771807563UPC:9781771807562Book Category:Health & Fitness, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Diseases & Conditions, Memoirs, Medical (Incl. Patients)Book Topic:Alzheimer's & DementiaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCBTQZHPRB
Dementia Widow: A Memoir about Love, Death, and Survival
The medical system took twelve years to reluctantly agree with Fay Martin that her husband was sliding into dementia. Even after he died three years later, people still questioned the diagnosis. This is a book about what happens behind that veil of invisibility.
Dementia Widow exposes, with courage and candor, the poison that seeps in, as a healthy reciprocal marriage becomes inexplicably...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Iguana BooksISBN-13:9781771807562ISBN-10:1771807563UPC:9781771807562Book Category:Health & Fitness, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Diseases & Conditions, Memoirs, Medical (Incl. Patients)Book Topic:Alzheimer's & DementiaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCBTQZHPRB
Martin, Fay: - "Fay Martin, MSW, PhD, spent fifteen years as wife-turned-caregiver for her husband as dementia reshaped their lives. Dementia Widow invites readers into the hidden world of spousal caregiving - its love, loss, exhaustion, invisibility, and on-going quest to remain a person with identity and agency. Both deeply personal and broadly relevant, her story offers comfort to caregivers...
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