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Somebody I used to know : a memoir / Wendy Mitchell with Anna Wharton.

Mitchell, Wendy, (author.). Wharton, Anna, (author.).

Summary:

A memoir by a former British National Heath Service employee and single parent describes her battles with early onset Alzheimer's, the management techniques she has developed to maintain her independence, and her efforts to make sense of her shifting world.

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  • ISBN: 9781524797911 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Subject: Mitchell, Wendy > Mental health.
Alzheimer's disease > Patients > Great Britain > Biography.
Dementia > Patients > Great Britain > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in July 2014 at the age of fifty-eight. She continued to work as an administrator for the British National Health Service until March 2015, when she retired to live “happily alone.” She now writes a popular blog about the experience of living with early-onset dementia called “Which me am I today?” She has been profiled on BBC news, and for two awareness-raising videos, one for the Alzheimer’s Society in the UK and one by Women & Home magazine. The single mother of two adult daughters, she lives in Yorkshire, England.

Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in July 2014 at the age of fifty-eight. She continued to work as an administrator for the British National Health Service until March 2015, when she retired to live “happily alone.” She now writes a popular blog about the experience of living with early-onset dementia called “Which me am I today?” She has been profiled on BBC news, and for two awareness-raising videos, one for the Alzheimer’s Society in the UK and one by Women & Home magazine. The single mother of two adult daughters, she lives in Yorkshire, England.


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