Blessed are the caregivers, for they make a heaven on earth for those they love: please Zoom with us to talk about “SPOUSAL CAREGIVING THROUGH DEMENTIA”
Featured image: Danish artist Sophus Vermehren, Interior with Elderly Man Sleeping (1944). By the time of this painting, Vermehren was nearing the end of a long and successful career (1866-1950). He lived with his wife, Yelva Petrea Sophie Vermehren. Art critics believe that the elderly man on the left of the painting is a self-portrait […]
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Published on January 31, 2025 21:01
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Field Notes on My Dementia
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah soon after my diagnosis, I completed a memoir, MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: FIELD NOTES ON MY DEMENTIA, which is forthcoming from Hachette Books in June 2017. But dementia does not hold still. Like anyone with a degenerative brain disease, I continue to dement every day, never done until I die. Every time my brain suffers an additional insult, I have less brain power to puzzle out my remaining “self.” There will come a time when I don’t care or don’t know who I am. Until then, though, I hope to maintain this website with the help of my saintly and tech-savvy husband, Peter.
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