What Dementia Teaches Us About Love Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What Dementia Teaches Us About Love written and browse by Nicci Gerrard.

Dementia is an unmaking, a de-creation – an apocalypse of meaning. Since my father’s slow-motion dying, and his actual death in November 2014, I have been much preoccupied with dementia: by those who have it, by those who look after them, by the hospital wards whose bedrooms are occupied by those in advanced phases of the self-loss, incidentally society denies it, from the science from it, in what Dementia Teaches Us About Like the artwork and literature about any of it, the school of thought, by what this means to be individual, with an identity. What is it to be oneself, and the facts to reduce one’s self. Who are we when we are not ourselves, and where do we go?

That is a book about dementia – not a personal account, but an exploration, structured for this radically-slowed death. Full of people’s stories, both unhappy and optimistic, it is a trip in to the dusk and then the darkness – and then out on towards the additional aspect, where, once somebody is deceased, a life can be seen whole again.