Hans Siepel Voices of the soul

the forgotten truth about dementia

This searing memoir, written by a son about his mother's dementia, is set in a town in the Netherlands but the issues reflected are relevant anywhere. The family are devoted, but the mother's decline reveals undercurrents in their relationships. We hear of the conventional medical approach to this difficult area of care but the family reject the medication so frequently prescribed to control patients. For a while, they care for her themselves at home but her increasingly erratic and sometimes violent...

Non-fictie

Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

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