What's it like to be the only son of a widowed mother rapidly sinking into the fog of dementia, and who lives alone half a continent away? Robert Tell tells this tale with compassion and humor. If you have watched helplessly as your parent, spouse or friend's identity disappeared into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), "Dementia Diary" will touch you deeply.
What's it like to be the only son of a widowed mother rapidly sinking into the fog of dementia, and who lives alone half a continent away? Robert Tell tells this tale with compassion and humor. If you have watched helplessly as your parent, spouse or friend's identity disappeared into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), "Dementia Diary" will touch you deeply.
Robert Tell is a full time writer who nurtured his creative writing habit while working as a hospital administrator, health planning agency executive, health policy professor, and business owner. His published books of fiction and poetry are described below.Tell's award winning poetry, columns, articles, and creative non-fiction have appeared in many periodicals. Copyrighted selections may appear from time to time on his personal website.Tell was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and was educated in Public Health and English at Columbia and Long Island Universities. He and his wife live in Farmington Hills, Michigan and winter in Boynton Beach, Florida.If you like Robert Tell's work, please remember to leave a review on Smashwords, and to tweet and talk about it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and other social media. Thank you.
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