Love and Dementia, Grief and Recovery: My Life with Judy

Tom met Judy, the love of his life, when she was seventy-three and he sixty. For eight years, they traveled the world from the United States and Europe to New Zealand, indulging in a relationship it had taken each of them a lifetime to find. Then, Judy began struggling to speak the words hovering in her mind, and math that had once been a breeze for her sharp mind became opaque and unretrievable. A neurological appointment confirmed the worst: Judy was beginning to experience dementia, "the cruelest disease."

Love and Dementia, Grief and Recovery is a story of pain and resilience. Told through Judy's journals and Tom's meditations on his time as a caregiver, this candid, loving conversation on memory loss is a vital read for those who are looking for hope, camaraderie, strength, and faith in the face of dementia. This memoir of dementia is a love story to replenish the hearts of caregivers.