Books that explore Dementia and Alzheimer's

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We Are Not Ourselves

Matthew Thomas

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD ‘A long gorgeous epic, full of love and life and caring … one of the best novels you’ll read this year’ New York…

$48.99

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Contented Dementia: 24-hour Wraparound Care for Lifelong Well-being

Oliver James

Dementia is a little understood and incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. This book outlines the SPECAL method…

$41.99

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Live and Laugh with Dementia: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Quality of Life

Lee-Lay Fow

This updated edition explains how to make life with dementia as positive as possible, by tailoring activities to suit patients’ needs and abilities, helping them maintain self-identity and experience happiness.

$24.99

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Rain Birds

Harriet McKnight

Alan and Pina have lived contentedly in isolated - and insular - Boney Point for thirty years. Now they are dealing with Alan’s devastating early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

$84.99

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Alice Munro

Includes stories that focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.

$26.99

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Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey

Meet Maud. Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home…

$22.99

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Caring for a Loved One with Dementia: A Mindfulness-Based Guide for Reducing Stress and Making the Best of Your Journey Together

Marguerite Manteau-Rao

Caring for a Loved One with Dementia is a unique and compassionate guide that offers an effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) program to help you meet your own needs and…

$43.99

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Somebody I Used to Know

Wendy Mitchell

How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?

$29.99

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The Night Guest

Fiona McFarlane

The hypnotic tale of a psychological battle on unequal terms and a superbly drawn portrait of two very particular women - a beautifully written, unnerving and acutely moving debut.

$22.99

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The Erratics

Vicki Laveau-Harvie

This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know. 

$27.99

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