A Joyful Encounter:
My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me
A Memoir by Lynn Scott
For two and one half years, I worked and played with people with memory loss. It was a profound, often deeply ecstatic experience. Besides recapturing all the old songs, still within my brain, that I had sung in my family, and all the memories they brought forward, the unexpected benefit was a reconnection with my mother, Mebs, whose own dementia was not handled well by my father and me. I missed her then. I found her in the telling of these stories.
A Joyful Encounter... "This wise, poignant, closely observed book opens a window into the world of dementia. People with this condition lose many things, but as Scott shows with sensitivity and grace, they never lose the need for warm, loving human contact, and frequently give it."
- Michael Castleman, Co-author: There's Still a Person In There: The Complete Guide to Preventing, Treating, and Coping with Alzheimer's Disease (Putnam, 1999)
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Publisher date: November 2005 - $12.95 ISBN: 0595362117
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Fierce With Reality:
An Anthology of Literature on Aging
"Open to any page and find a gem on aging, about 80% by women. Women from diverse cultures and lifestyles. Some names recognizable, some new to writing." Glenda Martin, Minnesota Women's Press.
Fierce With Reality, Ed. Margaret Cruickshank ISBN 09788628-0-5
$24.95
Currently I am completing a memoir with a working title of Oldham Street, about landing in a small sunny neighborhood of San Francisco in 1987 on thin emotional ice. I was helped to heal from deep grief by a unique set of unlikely healers.
