What I Wish People Knew About Dementia
- Author Wendy Mitchell
- Narrator Wendy Mitchell
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 7 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Coping with Alzheimer’s and dementia, Family and health, Home nursing and caring, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Memoirs, Popular medicine and health, Popular psychology, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Self-help, personal development and practical advice.
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What to expect
'Essential reading' SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE
'A book of hope' OBSERVER
'A marvellous tour of insights' THE TIMES
'A must-read . . . I couldn't recommend it higher' MICHAEL BALL
'Wendy Mitchell is a life-saver' FRANCES WILSON, AUTHOR OF BURNING MAN
What can a diseased brain tell us about being human, living our own lives better and helping those with dementia get the best from theirs?
When Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with young-onset dementia at the age of fifty-eight, her brain was overwhelmed with images of the last stages of the disease — those familiar tropes, shortcuts and clichés that we are fed by the media, or even our own health professionals.
But her diagnosis far from represented the end of her life. Instead, it was the start of a very different one.
Wise, practical and life affirming, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia combines anecdotes, research and Wendy Mitchell’s own brilliant wit and wisdom to tell readers exactly what she wishes they knew about dementia.
Critics Review
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An engaging and hopeful read. Mitchell’s signature warmth and optimism shine through on almost every page
Irish Times -
This is a book whose purpose is to convert despair into hope . . . A kind of how-to manual for people with the condition and those who support them. It proceeds by a practical and calming formula: take a difficulty and find a way to overcome it. Running under all the commonsense pieces of advice is a deeper and more existential message, one for all of us, young and old, in health or frailty: be kind, be attentive, be resilient, bend with change rather than be broken by it, connect, forgive, accept, embrace. Live.
Nicci Gerard, Observer -
Essential reading for those living with dementia, those who support them, professionals working in the field and any ‘curious individual’ . . . Her message for those given a dementia diagnosis is to never give up on themselves
Sunday Times Magazine -
A compelling blend of how-to manual and manifesto for a more sympathetic and informed approach to the disease. Even those whose own lives have yet to be touched by Alzheimer’s and other forms of the condition . . . will surely respond to this uplifting depiction of the survival of the human spirit in the most testing of circumstances
Financial Times -
A must-read . . . It offers readers a practical and really honest guide to life after a diagnosis of dementia . . . For anyone who’s beginning this journey, I couldn’t recommend it higher’
Michael Ball, BBC Radio 2 -
Revelatory . . . There are many books about dementia that focus on its biology, its clinical subtypes, its social dimension, its effect on carers and loved ones. But there are few memoirs written by the people with dementia themselves. Mitchell’s joins a burgeoning literature of medical memoirs that, like the finest travel writing or reportage, transport the reader to another world that they may or may not visit one day
The Times
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