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This collection of stories illustrates the struggle, pain, humor, adjustment, and change surrounding a spouses dementia. Burkholders poignant memoir comes as a result of her husbands dementia, but this book is not a book just about dementia, or faith, or grieving. It is a book about the gritty and glorious substances of life and how, in the authors case, illness and health, faith and doubt, grieving and acceptance flow together into a river of change. Study questions are included. They are not only a tool for understanding dementia or the role of caregivers but can bring greater selfawareness to every persons life experience.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This collection of stories illustrates the struggle, pain, humor, adjustment, and change surrounding a spouses dementia. Burkholders poignant memoir comes as a result of her husbands dementia, but this book is not a book just about dementia, or faith, or grieving. It is a book about the gritty and glorious substances of life and how, in the authors case, illness and health, faith and doubt, grieving and acceptance flow together into a river of change. Study questions are included. They are not only a tool for understanding dementia or the role of caregivers but can bring greater selfawareness to every persons life experience.
Autorenporträt
Ginnie Horst Burkholder lives in Canton, Ohio and has previously published stories, poems, and essays. She has been her husband Nelson's primary caregiver since 1997 when he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. She visits Nelson frequently since his admission to a nursing home in 2010 and continues to be very involved in his care.