Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What Dementia Shows Us About Like written and go through by Nicci Gerrard.

Dementia can be an unmaking, a de-creation – an apocalypse of meaning. Since my father’s slow-motion dying, and his real death in November 2014, I have been very much preoccupied with dementia: by those people who have it, by those that take care of them, by a healthcare facility wards whose beds are occupied by those in advanced levels of this self-loss, by the way culture denies it, by the science from it, about What Dementia Teaches Us About Like the artwork and literature about any of it, the school of thought, by what it means to be human, to have an identity. What is it to become oneself, and the facts to reduce one’s self. Who are we whenever we are not ourselves, and where do we go?

That is a book about dementia – not really a personal account, but an exploration, structured for this radically-slowed death. Full of people’s stories, both unfortunate and optimistic, it is a trip in to the dusk and the darkness – and then out on to the other aspect, where, once someone is deceased, a life can be seen whole again.