A wonderful resource for any family affected by dementia … Dr Brennan’s professional experience of dementia, along with her academic knowledge and her family experience of dementia, gives her a unique perspective and this is clear from the nuggets of advice and information on every page … realistic yet hopeful.

This is an essential and much-needed guide for both those living with dementia and their caregivers. Sabina understands how important the partnership is between caregiver and dementia patient, and draws on the most up-to-date and innovative research to show how to both optimise the caregiving experience and boost wellbeing and brain health for both. A long-overdue resource.

Indispensable. The practical information is presented in such a positive manner despite the complex and potentially heavy subject matter at hand … Dr Sabina Brennan’s compassionate approach and deep level of understanding of the care partner’s lived experience gives us back our sense of self, gives us solace, and it fills us with hope for the journey ahead.

A beautifully written, warm, personal, empathetic but immensely practical book … Sabina illuminates the path in front of us, wherever we are on this journey. Drawing on cutting edge research combined with her own personal experience, she strongly advocates the importance of self-care, both physical and emotional; how to truly communicate with the one we love battling this illness, remembering at all times, that the person we know is ‘still there’, hidden underneath the complex layers which make up this condition; and finally the importance of both care-partners trying to live as well as possible, with the time they have together, and how to achieve this goal.