Description
| Product ID: | 9781459747791 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Title: | Four Umbrellas |
| Subtitle: | A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's |
| Authors: | Author: June Hutton, Tony Wanless |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Biography: science, technology and medicine, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Memoirs, Medicine: general issues, Alzheimer’s and dementia, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Memoirs, Medicine: general issues, Alzheimer’s & dementia, Coping with illness & specific conditions, British Columbia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating June watches and worries as her husband, Tony, gradually changes his interests, goals, and behaviour. The signs of dementia are all around, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's takes seven years. Four Umbrellas provides a fresh perspective, bending the usual caretaker narrative by enfolding the voice of the person with the disease. A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer''s causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known. A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer’s are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person’s disease. |
| Imprint Name: | Dundurn Group Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Dundurn Group Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-12-24 |