Dementia Widow: A Memoir about Love, Death, and Survival

The medical system took twelve years to reluctantly agree with Fay that her husband was sliding into dementia. Even after he died, three years later, people questioned the diagnosis. This is a book about what happens behind that veil of invisibility.

Dementia Widow also exposes, with courage and candor, the poison that seeps in as a healthy reciprocal marriage becomes inexplicably hierarchical. Only when dementia is recognized as the villain does the relationship morph to offer the loving c...