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“In a world that prizes thinking and producing above all else, those living with dementia and their caregivers often find they need to lean into the spiritual values of unconditional love, knowing that every life has sacred dignity, joy even in the pain, and deep peace. This book is a beautiful testament to living out those values.”

Nancy Loyd, MAT, Certified Spiritual Director

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 all those things. It 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.