Telling Tales About Dementia

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction.; Section 1: Living with Loss.; 1. A Big Enough Supply of Love. Maria Jastrzebska.; 2. We Don't Know What is Going Through Her Mind. Jennifer Davies.; 3. The Departing Light. Jim Swift.; 4. Walking on Thin Ice. Rachael Dixey.; 5. The Most Difficult Decision of My Life. Debbie Jackson.; 6. We Learn to Enter Her World. U Hla Htay.; 7. Half a World Away. Anna Young.; 8. Have You Seen My Pat? Pat Hill.; 9. Feisty Love. Maria Smith.; 10. Glimpses of Glory on a Long Dark Road. Helen Robinson.; 11. Our Mum Had To Be The Man of The House. The Malik Family.; 12. On The Contrary. Lucy Whitman.; 13. Family Matters. Ian McQueen.; 14. Back and Forth. Geraldine McCarthy.; 15. A Very Important Moustache. Steve Jeffery.; Section 2: Despatches from the Battlefield.; 16. This Has Gone Beyond My Mother. Marylyn Duncan.; 17. Rage, Rage. Jenny Thomas.; 18. Forever in My Thoughts. Rosie Smith.; 19. A Sister's Story. Peggy Fray.; 20. Surely the World has Changed. Roger Newman.; 21. Look Back in Anger. Shirley Nurock.; 22. Cracks in the System. Pat Brown.; 23. Strained to the Limit. Andra Houchen.; 24. Break on Through to the Other Side. Louisa Houchen.; 25. Rocking the Boat. Sheena Sanderson.; 26. The Significant Other. Brain Baylis.; 27. An Instruction Manual for Keeping Your Mind. Gail Chester.; Section 3: Keeping In Touch, Letting Go.; 28. When Words Fail. Barbara Pointon.; 29. The End of The Story. Tim Dartington.; 30. State of Grace. Rosemary Clarke. Glossary. Recommended Reading. Helpful Organisations. The Contributors. What is for dementia?