Someone New: Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts come from the husbands, wives, children, parents, siblings and friends of people living with frontotemporal degeneration. Writers describe the years before the diagnosis — the ruined finances, the workplace complaints, the apathy read as depression, the marriage counselling, the affairs, the shoplifting, the psychiatric admissions — and the fury of hindsight. There is the day it was named, often after years and often in a room with too little time. Then the rearranged house: the safety measures, the food obsessions and compulsive routines, the care that a young family suddenly has to provide, and the specific isolation of a dementia in a fifty-two-year-old. Writers describe where the words went in the language variants, the genetic testing that shadows some families, the services that did and did not exist, and what remained afterwards.

Who it's for

For families facing behavioural or language change in someone too young for dementia, FTD carers at any stage, and clinicians who want to hear how long diagnosis took.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 237 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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