Riniam Dkhar

Still Here — A Family's Handbook for Living with Dementia

It starts with a small strange pause everyone agrees to explain away. She's tired. He's always been absent-minded. It's the heat. How to tell ordinary ageing forgetfulness from something else — and why the eighteen months families spend explaining it away is the most expensive time in the whole illness. Includes the one-month log that ends the family argument about whether anything is really wrong