Reading Well: Dementia

We all do it: forget where we put the car keys (or the car) or whether we locked the back door. Missed appointments, shopping we came home without, forgetting what we were about to say - all may make us question our mental processes. While ageing can be a factor, however, other things can cause your memory to let you down, including stress, depression, illness and some prescription medications. This book describes the various conditions that lead...

The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, but there are several other types with varying levels of severity. This book is intended for anyone who has, or may be worried that they or their family and friends have, dementia.

Only 12 pages.

Thousands suffer from dementia. There is a clear need for better understanding of the condition, both for those who suffer from it and for those around them - to be aware of what it may mean and to know what can be done to improve the mental health of sufferers. This book provides an easy and accessible introduction.

Written with both family and professional carers in mind, this book clearly explains what happens to communication as dementia progresses, how this may affect an individual's memory, language and senses, and how carers might need to adapt their approach as a result.

While dementia affects mostly older people, some 17,000 young people also have dementia in the UK. There are treatments, but no cure. Caring for people with dementia is a well-recognized burden, but recently there have been moves to represent this in a more positive light, emphasising people with dementia as individuals who deserve respect, rather than as the challenge as which they have traditionally been viewed. Nevertheless, for individual carers...

Meet Jack - an older man with dementia. Jack invites readers to learn about dementia from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced by someone with dementia and the changes it causes to memory, communication and behaviour.

Christine Bryden was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. This book relates her experiences of living with the condition, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks.

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself,...