Did you learn anything new about dementia?

[St. Martin's Press, Publisher]

Did you learn anything you didn't previously know about dementia while reading this novel?

[Teresa]

Not really...but it did make me wonder more about what the sufferer thinks/feels.

[Diane]

If anything I learned I need to look at it differently than I had before. This disease is so much more complex than anyone can imagine.

[Amy]

Honestly, as a nurse, it was difficult for me to picture, as much as I loved this book, because I saw the fighting that dementia caused between happily married couples all the time. I feel as though the book was more fantasy of what the disease could/should be like; but not what it really is.

[Charlene]

I did not get a chance to read the book because I had to return it to the library before I was in the mood to read it. My husband has had Alzheimer's Disease about nine years now, so I live with it daily.

Note to Amy: I'm sure you did not mean your comment to be read as all-encompassing, and since I've not read the book, I cannot be fair with respect to that. However, I can say that our marriage is not "full of fighting," in case it might sound like that to someone who first encounters a loved one with dementia.

I do know my good friend's father also had dementia, and the police would have to call her when they found him out trying to hitchhike in his underwear. It's not a picnic for anyone who's a caretaker, either.

[Wendi]

St. Martin's Press wrote: "Did you learn anything you didn't previously know about dementia while reading this novel?"

Yes, I did not know this disease could afflict young people as well.

[Laurie]

Very enlightening and informative read for adults of all ages

[Amy]

Charlene wrote: "I did not get a chance to read the book because I had to return it to the library before I was in the mood to read it. My husband has had Alzheimer's Disease about nine years now, so I live with it..."

You are correct...there are some blissfully "happy" people with the disease as well. In my field, I, unfortunately, saw the ugly side (which is why the people were in the care of a facility in the first place). It saddens me that the people who love the "diseased" person are hurt more than the person who has the disease; especially in the later stages, when the person with the disease does not recognize there is anything wrong with them; although, it is scary to them to have people visit and not know who those people are.