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A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond - Love in a Whirlwind (Hardcover)
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A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond - Love in a Whirlwind (Hardcover)
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
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A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond 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. 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. 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.
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