Amazing Grace: Enjoying Alzheimer's

by Ray Campbell Smith

When Ray Smith's much-loved wide Grace developed the first symptoms of Alzheimer's, the couple decided on a radical approach to the problem. Instead of succumbing to despair, they decided to treat the illness as simply the latest adventure in their long and loving marriage. They researched convential and holistic treatments, learning how to successfully control the disease, and then embarked on a series of glorious adventures to India, Italy, and South America.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

Internationally noted artist Ray Smith has exhibited in solo and group shows around the world. A lecturer at the Chelsea School of Art and at Exeter Art College, he was recently Artist-in-Residence at the University of Southampton in the UK. Smith has received many distinguished awards for his work, including an Arts Council Award, a Lindbury Trust artist's award, and the Deutscher Jugendbuch Preis. He has written several titles in The DK Art School series, and is the author of The Artist's Handbook and How to Draw and Paint What You See.

Reviews

[Sull]

Not a great book, sorry to say. Full of the author's ideas on nutrition and vitamins, travel and exercise, etc., for Alzheimers people, but lacks a sense of his wife Grace as a real person with Alzheimers. Flawed as it was, John Bayley's 'Iris' was better for that. In fact, 'Iris' comes across as quite a good book compared to this one. . . .