Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond


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<p><em>A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond</em> is the extraordinary unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband Ernest Lockridge's life - from his transient amnesia to his death from Lewy Body Dementia.</p><p>Focusing on the lived experience of the caregiver through the loved one’s journey from mild cognitive impairment to death the book gives the reader the experience of what the medical diagnoses mean and what has led up to the loss. It shows the complex nuanced lives of a couple both living with the worst effects of a disease like Lewy Body Dementia while maintaining sometimes with hope and laughter their loving connection nourished through a 40-year marriage.</p><p>Dementia is a ‘silver tsunami’ - the third leading cause of death amongst senior populations. Richardson’s beautifully written book gives on-the-ground emotional support to those already in service as caregivers and helps prepare others for such service. Hospices book clubs and medical and allied professionals will find this book extraordinarily valuable. Weaving in autoethnographic and sociological methods and scholarship as well as a list of reading and further resources for caregivers and scholars this book will also appeal to courses in a wide range of disciplines and fields including health communication nursing and allied health courses covering death and dying end-of-life and illness care and of course scholars pursuing autoethnography creative non-fiction and qualitative methods. </p>
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