Four umbrellas : a couple's journey into young-onset Alzheimer's / June Hutton & Tony Wanless.
"A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering -- and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781459747791 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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Subject: | Wanless, Tony, 1949- > Health. Hutton, June, 1954- > Marriage. Alzheimer's disease > Patients > Family relationships. Alzheimer's disease > Patients > Biography. Spouses > Biography. |
Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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