A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond

Love in a Whirlwind

Laurel Richardson

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Routledge
10 February 2022

Memoirs; Medical sociology; Geriatric nursing; Coping with illness

Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband Ernest Lockridge's life - from his transient amnesia to his death from Lewy Body Dementia.

Focusing on the lived experience of the caregiver through the loved one’s journey from mild cognitive impairment to death, the book gives the reader the experience of what the medical diagnoses mean and what has led up to the loss. It shows the complex, nuanced lives of a couple both living with the worst effects of a disease like Lewy Body Dementia, while maintaining, sometimes with hope and laughter, their loving connection nourished through a 40-year marriage.

Dementia is a ‘silver tsunami’ - the third leading cause of death amongst senior populations. Richardson’s beautifully written book gives on-the-ground emotional support to those already in service as caregivers and helps prepare others for such service. Hospices, book clubs, and medical and allied professionals will find this book extraordinarily valuable. Weaving in autoethnographic and sociological methods and scholarship, as well as a list of reading and further resources for caregivers and scholars, this book will also appeal to courses in a wide range of disciplines and fields, including health communication, nursing and allied health, courses covering death and dying, end-of-life, and illness care, and, of course, scholars pursuing autoethnography, creative non-fiction, and qualitative methods.

By: Laurel Richardson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781032181127
ISBN 10: 1032181125
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 10 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurel Richardson is a Distinguished Emeritus Academy Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University, USA. She has been honored with Lifetime Achievement awards in her profession and in Who’s Who in America and the world, and is the author of eleven previous books. Ernest Lockridge, a Yale Ph.D., was an Emeritus Professor of English at The Ohio State University, author of three novels, a jazz musician and a visual artist. Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge were married from 1980 until Ernest’s death in 2020.