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Two days in December
- Author:
- DARTINGTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 6(3), August 2007, pp.327-341.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Tim Dartington has drawn on contemporaneous documents, diary notes and more recently a blog, in putting together this account of two days out of six years. Anna was a psychotherapist and writer on adolescence until she took early retirement in 2000 and underwent tests for Alzheimer's disease. She died at home in May 2007. In his description of his own thought processes and associations to the progression of the disease, Tim has included detail from his observation of ways that Anna managed herself in relation to the illness, and also her verbatim comment.
Dying from dementia - a patient's journey
- Author:
- DARTINGTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 18.10.08, 2008, pp.931-933.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Anna Dartington developed Alzheimer's disease at the age of 54 and died at home seven years later. The author, her husband, discusses the development of her disease, the care that was provided and her death at home. The article also includes the perspectives of the palliative care physician, the psychiatrist, the occupational therapist and the views of Anna herself.