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The millions of families dealing with Alzheimer’s disease produce millions of their own stories. We focus on two particular elements that can be part of a family’s story about dementia. One, from a collection of autobiographical stories, centers on an adult daughter with a long-standing, and justifiable antipathy towards her mother, who nevertheless finds a way to aid her when dementia takes hold. And, while doing so, she finds a new relationship with her mother and takes delight in the personality dementia produces for a time. The other, drawn from a novel, centers on various forms of denial a wife exhibits over several years of her husband’s dementia progression.

Featured Content Sources:

Stories from, The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit, Penguin Books, 2014

Novel, We Are Not Ourselves, by Matthew Thomas, Simon & Shuster, 2014


Links:

From Russell Teagarden’s blog, According to the Arts:

• The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit: the book; comparison of excerpts with biomedical text
• We Are Not Ourselves, by Matthew Thomas

Thanks to Alexis Teagarden, PhD, for bringing Rebecca Solnit’s, The Faraway Nearby, to our attention.


Please send us comments, recommendations, and questions to: russell.teagarden@theclinicandtheperson.com.

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