{"product_id":"what-dementia-teaches-us-about-love-1","title":"What Dementia Teaches Us About Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in  our own futures. If it's not you or me, it's someone we love.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions  of us, yet which we still struggle to speak about. What does dementia mean, for those who live with it, and those who care for them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis truthful, humane book is an attempt to understand. It is filled with stories, both moving and optimistic: from those living with dementia to  those planning the end of life, from the scientists unlocking the mysteries of the brain to the therapists using art and music to enrich  the lives of sufferers, from the campaigners battling for greater  compassion in care to the families trying to make sense of this 'incomprehensible de-creation of the self'. It explores memory, language, identity, ageing and the notion of what it truly means to care. And it asks, how do we begin to value those who become old, invisible, forgotten? What do we owe them, and each other as humans? What, in the end, really matters?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicci Gerrard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40302370062514,"sku":"241347459","price":405.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/7999_611d1c4fe16209.83688586_9780241347454_141a0180-3882-4399-843c-733db76963aa.jpg?v=1659010044","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/what-dementia-teaches-us-about-love-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}