A review by herreadingroom
Where Memories Go by Sally Magnusson

5.0

This is a wonderful book - it lends another articulate voice to the campaign for massive change in the way we should deliver dementia care as it rapidly becomes the biggest healthcare challenge on the planet. Part memoir but also a brilliant and heart-rending insight into the fragmented and frightening world of dementia, of how her mother and the whole family coped with life while precious memories and self hood becomes eroded by the plaqued and tangled ravages of dementia. It is an important and vital book about a determined, resourceful human spirit and about triumphs of the soul overcoming the difficulties faced while living with dementia. How fundamentally important person-centred care is and how that must be delivered more effectively within community based interactions. Anyone who works in the field of dementia, in whatever care setting that may be - I urge you to read this book. Brilliantly and sensitively written yet leaving the reader in no doubt of the impending impact growing numbers of us developing dementia will be on global society and the necessity of urgent and radical change in healthcare and social welfare in order to deal with this growing situation.