What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
Autor Nicci Gerrarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2020
'Immensely powerful . . . her investigation of this terrible illness is sensitive and compelling'Sunday Times
After her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions of us, yet which we still struggle to speak about. What does dementia mean, for those who live with it, and those who care for them?
This truthful, humane book is an attempt to understand. It is filled with stories, both moving and optimistic: from those living with dementia to those planning the end of life, from the scientists unlocking the mysteries of the brain to the therapists using art and music to enrich the lives of sufferers, from the campaigners battling for greater compassion in care to the families trying to make sense of this 'incomprehensible de-creation of the self'.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141986432
ISBN-10: 0141986433
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141986433
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
As
well
as
being
a
novelist,
Nicci
Gerrard
is
a
journalist,
a
campaigner
and
a
humanist
celebrant.
In
2016
she
won
the
Orwell
Prize
for
Journalism,
for
'Exposing
Britain's
Social
Evils',
for
a
piece
exploring
the
'language'
of
dementia.
Following her father's terrible final year and his death in November 2014, she and her friend Julia Jones founded John's Campaign, which insists that the carers of people with dementia have the same right as parents of sick children to accompany them when in hospital. The campaign, which seeks to make care for those who are vulnerable and powerless more compassionate, began in a kitchen but is now a national movement, recognised by NHS policy makers, by charities, by nurses and doctors and carers. Four hundred hospitals have already signed up to the campaign.
Following her father's terrible final year and his death in November 2014, she and her friend Julia Jones founded John's Campaign, which insists that the carers of people with dementia have the same right as parents of sick children to accompany them when in hospital. The campaign, which seeks to make care for those who are vulnerable and powerless more compassionate, began in a kitchen but is now a national movement, recognised by NHS policy makers, by charities, by nurses and doctors and carers. Four hundred hospitals have already signed up to the campaign.
Recenzii
Immensely
powerful
.
.
.
an
incisive
and
compelling
read.
Gerrard,
a
crime
novelist
and
former
journalist,
visits
the
"fresh
hell"
of
hospitals
across
the
UK,
and
interviews
sufferers
and
those
whose
lives
have
been
indelibly
shaped
by
the
diagnosis
of
a
loved
one
.
.
.
As
well
as
being
part-memoir
and
part-reportage,What
Dementia
Teaches
Us
About
Loveis
also
a
great
part
philosophical
inquiry
into
the
nature
of
self
and
what
it
is
to
be
human.
Essential reading about love, life and care
An extraordinarily luminous book, at once terribly sad and frightening but also somehow hopeful and energising.
Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book. Kind, knowing and infinitely useful
Gerrard ranges widely and wisely, raising questions about what it is to be human and facing truths too deep for tears
This is a tender, lyrical, profound, urgent book . . . Gerrard has penned a treatise on what it is to be human
Evocative and powerful, shining a light on a world which is often hidden and misunderstood
Gerrard writes beautifully, encyclopaedically and with humanity
Nicci Gerrard exudes understanding of the breadth, scale and complexity of the dementias and the challenges they pose for society. Yet she communicates simply, personally and practically as if speaking individually to each of us
Nicci Gerrard writes with power, insight, empathy and extraordinary beauty about the world of dementia . . . and demonstrates how we can address the fear, despair and ignorance that has accompanied its spread
Immensely powerful . . . shot through with insights. Gerrard's book is an elegant yet devastating interrogation into this fatal loss of self, and is part-reportage, part-philosophical inquiry, but, above all, intensely personal.
A profound and powerful exploration of how society interprets and deals with a health challenge that will only deepen over the coming decades
Essential reading about love, life and care
An extraordinarily luminous book, at once terribly sad and frightening but also somehow hopeful and energising.
Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book. Kind, knowing and infinitely useful
Gerrard ranges widely and wisely, raising questions about what it is to be human and facing truths too deep for tears
This is a tender, lyrical, profound, urgent book . . . Gerrard has penned a treatise on what it is to be human
Evocative and powerful, shining a light on a world which is often hidden and misunderstood
Gerrard writes beautifully, encyclopaedically and with humanity
Nicci Gerrard exudes understanding of the breadth, scale and complexity of the dementias and the challenges they pose for society. Yet she communicates simply, personally and practically as if speaking individually to each of us
Nicci Gerrard writes with power, insight, empathy and extraordinary beauty about the world of dementia . . . and demonstrates how we can address the fear, despair and ignorance that has accompanied its spread
Immensely powerful . . . shot through with insights. Gerrard's book is an elegant yet devastating interrogation into this fatal loss of self, and is part-reportage, part-philosophical inquiry, but, above all, intensely personal.
A profound and powerful exploration of how society interprets and deals with a health challenge that will only deepen over the coming decades