Living With DementiaLiving With Dementia

"In 2013 Darce Fardy was diagnosed with dementia. He was eighty-one years old. Fardy did not let the diagnosis get him down. Not only did he accept the situation and the likely consequences; he practically embraced them. As a former journalist, it was natural for him to document his experience. Over the next six years, almost seventy of his columns were published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, serving as a window on his deteriorating condition. But the columns revealed something else: the extent to which dementia touched other people's lives. Everyone seemed to have a story about a loved one who was dealing with some form of dementia -- and readers were grateful for his insights. Fardy kept writing until early 2020, when his ability to piece together a five hundred-word essay was finally out of reach. He died two years later. Here, Fardy's columns have been compiled into a poignant and illuminating collection that serves to both honour him and destigmatize the disease. Published in cooperation with the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia, Living with Dementia features forty black-and-white photos, a foreword and several columns by prominent Halifax geriatrician Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, and practical guidance from the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia"--