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020    9780525521969|q(hardcover) 
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100 1  Gerrard, Nicci. 
245 14 The last ocean :|ba journey through memory and forgetting 
       /|cNicci Gerrard. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2019. 
264  4 |c©2019  
300    254 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-252). 
505 0  Beginnings -- Facing up -- Getting older -- The brain, the
       mind and the self -- Memory and forgetting -- The 
       diagnosis -- Shame -- The carers -- Connecting through the
       arts -- Home -- The later stages -- Hospitals -- At the 
       end -- Saying goodbye -- Death -- Beginnings again. 
520    "From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, 
       raw, and humane investigation of dementia that explores 
       both the journey of the person who lives with the 
       condition and that of their loved ones. Diagnosed with 
       dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live 
       life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an 
       isolating hospital stay precipitated a dramatic turn for 
       the worse, Gerrard, an award-winning journalist and author,
       recognized that it was not just the disease, but misguided
       protocol and harmful practice that cause pain at the end 
       of life. Inspired by his memory to seek a better course 
       for all who suffer with the disease and those who love 
       them, Gerrard became a relentless campaigner. The Last 
       Ocean is Gerrard's attempt to investigate what dementia 
       does to both the person who lives with the condition and 
       to their caregivers. Dementia is now one of the leading 
       causes of death in the West, and this necessary book will 
       offer both comfort and a map to those walking through it. 
       While she begins with her father's long slip into 
       forgetting, the writing expands to elegantly investigate 
       dementia writ large. It's a raw but literary look at 
       caring for someone who has been robbed of their selfhood. 
       Gerrard gives shape both to the unimaginable loss of one's
       own faculties, as well as to the pain of their loved ones.
       Her lens is unflinching, but Gerrard takes great pains to 
       honor her subjects and to find the beauty and the humanity
       in their seemingly diminished states"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, 
       raw and humane investigation of dementia that explores 
       both the journeys of the people who live with the 
       condition and those of their loved ones  
600 10 Gerrard, John,|d-2014. 
650  0 Dementia|xPatients|vBiography. 
650  0 Dementia|xPatients|xCare. 
650    Dementia|xSocial aspects. 
650  7 Dementia|xPatients.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00890057 
650  7 Dementia|xPatients|xCare.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00890058 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aGerrard, Nicci,|tThe last ocean|dNew 
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