After Everyone’s Asleep: Reflections for Those Caring a Parent with Dementia

The house is finally quiet. What you're carrying isn't. >No one prepares you for this: becoming the parent to your own parent, grieving someone who is still sitting in the next room. The world has names for many kinds of loss, but not quite for this one-the long, slow goodbye of loving someone through dementia. After Everyone's Asleep is a book of short, honest reflections for the adult child caring for a parent with dementia. >Across 90 brief reflections, it sits with you through: - The grief that has no funeral, for someone still here - The guilt that shadows nearly every decision you make - The days that test everything-the refusals, the suspicion, the cruel words that were never really them - The strange isolation of caring while everyone asks how they are, and no one asks about you - The complicated love of caring for a parent when the relationship was never simple >There is no right order. Open it anywhere. Read one reflection or several-on the nights you need them, and not on the nights you don't. No fixing. No judgment. Just company for the hours after everyone's asleep. >A reflective companion in The Quiet Strength Series: honest words for the people who spend their lives caring for others, and rarely get cared for in return.

Pages: 119, Paperback, Independently published