Come On In (Hardcover)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Forget-Me-Not Publishing, 2026
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Hardcover. Come On In To Our World of Living With Vascular Dementia A Dementia Caregiving Memoir by Michelle Spratt and Vicky DonoghueRaw Dementia Memoir: Follow one family's 18-year vascular dementia caregiving journey, navigating devastating behavioral changes, grief, and an unwavering fight for their loved one.NHS Funding Victory: Discover how Michelle and Vicky challenged the UK healthcare system to secure NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, offering hope to elder care advocates everywhere.Practical Carer Guide: Gain insight on Lasting Power of Attorney, NHS Continuing Care entitlement, and caregiver self-care strategies that empower families facing aggressive dementia at home.Heartbreaking and Empowering: From diagnosis to care home transition and peaceful passing, this memoir captures the full emotional toll of spousal and family loss to vascular dementia.For Every Dementia Family: Whether navigating Alzheimer's, multi-infarct dementia, or elder care advocacy, this honest dementia family story will make you feel less alone and more prepared.Freedom is a gift to be cherished. We take it for granted until it is stolen from us.Come On In is the true memoir of Michelle Spratt and her mother Vicky Donoghue, chronicling an 18-year vascular dementia caregiving journey alongside John, a charismatic family man whose personality and freedom were slowly stolen by Vascular Dementia.What begins as a family story becomes a raw, unflinching account of the physical and emotional devastation that aggressive dementia brings into a home. When an emergency MRI revealed irrevocable brain damage to John's frontal and parietal lobes, the diagnosis changed everything. Over the years that followed, Vicky and Michelle faced severe behavioral changes, exhaustion, fear, and an unyielding battle against the UK healthcare system to secure NHS Continuing Healthcare funding.They fought. They won.Drawing on the Coughlan case precedent, the family successfully appealed for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, a victory that changed the course of John's care. This memoir captures every step of that journey, from John's diagnosis to his transition to a care home, and ultimately his peaceful passing in 2019.Come On In is not only a heartfelt dementia memoir. It is also a practical guide for carers and medical advocates, covering Lasting Power of Attorney, NHS Continuing Care entitlement, safety planning, and caregiver self-care. Whether you are coping with aggressive dementia at home, navigating elder care advocacy, or simply searching for a dementia family story that reflects your own grief, this book will make you feel less alone.For anyone touched by Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer's, multi-infarct dementia, or the long goodbye of any terminal illness, Come On In will hold your hand through it all. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9781739239671
- Título
- Come On In (Hardcover)
- Autor
- Michelle Spratt
- Editorial
- Forget-Me-Not Publishing
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1739239679
- ISBN 13
- 9781739239671
An honest and deeply personal family memoir about vascular dementia, caregiving, love, loss, resilience, and the fight to protect the dignity of someone you love.
John Donoghue was a devoted husband, loving dad and grandad, natural entertainer, dancer, family man, and someone who could fill a room with laughter.
Then vascular dementia began to change everything.
What started with small moments of confusion and behaviour that seemed out of character gradually became something far more serious. After suffering a stroke at the age of 59, John's memory, judgement, behaviour, communication, mobility, and independence slowly declined. In 2006, he received an official diagnosis of vascular dementia.
Written by John's wife, Vicky Donoghue, and daughter, Michelle Spratt, Come On In: To Our World of Living with Vascular Dementia shares their family's deeply personal experience of living with dementia over eighteen years.
This is not simply a story about memory loss.
It is a story about how dementia can affect personality, judgement, relationships, independence, marriage, family life, and the everyday reality of caring for someone you love.
Vicky cared for John at home for twelve years, supported by Michelle, Nick, Mark, and the wider family. As John's condition progressed, the family eventually faced one of their most difficult decisions: accepting that he needed professional twenty-four-hour care.
Inside this moving family dementia memoir, readers will discover:
• The early warning signs that something was changing
• John's stroke and eventual vascular dementia diagnosis
• The emotional reality of becoming a full-time dementia caregiver
• How dementia affected marriage, children, grandchildren, friendships, and family life
• The difficult transition from home care to residential care
• Practical lessons learned through years of dementia caregiving
• The family's battle for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding
• The importance of evidence and Lasting Power of Attorney
• The emotional impact of grief, guilt, exhaustion, isolation, and loss
• Why it is so important to remember the person behind the disease
The book also reveals the family's difficult fight after John's NHS Continuing Healthcare funding was withdrawn. Through research, evidence, persistence, and an appeal, they eventually succeeded in having his eligibility restored.
They fought. They won.
But at the heart of this book is John himself.
The husband who loved his family.
The father who built snowmen, went camping, helped his children, taught line dancing, and filled family gatherings with laughter.
The grandad whose grandchildren adored him.
Vicky and Michelle refuse to allow the final years of dementia to become the definition of John's life. Instead, they remember his humour, generosity, integrity, love of family, and the values he left behind.
For families living with vascular dementia, adult children caring for a parent, partners becoming caregivers, or anyone seeking to understand dementia more deeply, this is a heartfelt account of what one family learned through love, exhaustion, heartbreak, determination, and hope.
Because dementia may change a person in painful ways, but it cannot erase everything they gave to the people who loved them.
John lost his freedom, but never their love.
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