Lost Down Memory Lane - Caring For Alzheimer's

A Personal Journey

by Dawn Fanshawe

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 8/14/2015

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 5.5x8.5

Page Count : 330

ISBN : 9781512706031

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : N/A

Page Count : 330

ISBN : 9781512706048

Format : Hardcover

Dimensions : 5.5x8.5

Page Count : 330

ISBN : 9781512706055

About the Book

Did you know that:-
1 in 8 adults in the UK are carers?
Three in five people will be carers at some point in their lives in the UK?
Another 7.7 million people will develop dementia around the world every year?

As of 2013, there were an estimated 44.4 million people with dementia worldwide. This number will increase to an estimated 135.5 million in 2050?

The chances are that you know someone who has been diagnosed with dementia.
Maybe you are one of those heroic carers?
Or maybe you are wondering what will happen to you or a family member if you or they should need full-time care?
Being a carer can seem tragic and challenging, but it can also be a journey blessed with joy, healing and unforeseen rewards.

Dawn Fanshawe’s personal story will open your mind and heart to some shared human fears, concerns and issues and will offer you hope, reassurance, insight and many practical suggestions as you face the choices you may need to make. *******************************

“Dawn writes with great sensitivity to both the cared for and the carer. She shares her own personal journey with honesty and yet with dignity in a way that will help anyone caring for another to find ways to embrace life, despite its many and varied challenges. This book is easy to read and engaging and will bring hope and encouragement to carers walking this challenging and yet important path. It will also provide people in general with a better understanding about the issues so many face on a daily basis.”

Jo Naughton
Author, International Speaker and Co-Pastor,
Harvest Church London

About the Author

Dawn Fanshawe lives in Nottingham, England where she grew up and lived until she was 19. She then worked for two years in Germany as an Au Pair, before doing a degree in Education and Art in London. For 15 years Dawn was as an Early Years Teacher / Foundation-Stage Manager in London. Dawn remains passionate about education and was a School Governor for over 20 years and a County Governor for the NHS in Nottinghamshire.

As a student, she worked as a care assistant in many Elderly & Mentally Infirm homes across London, and in 2006 she brought her mother - who was at the time living on a remote island in the Orkney Isles and had early onset Alzheimer's Disease - to live with her in her new family home in Nottingham. At this point Dawn became her mother’s full-time carer which was to turn her life around in so many ways.

Contact with mental illness has been integral to Dawn’s life and relationships; as a child she suffered abuse at the hands of her parents and this had long-reaching implications for herself. Dealing with the challenge of caring for her mother as she became more and more incapacitated by dementia has been a big part of her own journey of healing, forgiveness and self-discovery.

More recently Dawn ran her own photography business in Nottingham and is a trustee for a Nottinghamshire charity looking to help disadvantaged families and children in her neighbourhood; she was also actively involved in the NHS Involvement Strategy.

A key part of Dawn’s life is her Christian faith and her active involvement within her local church community. Dawn’s other passions include learning and speaking languages, travelling, reading, writing, photography and gardening. Dawn’s mission is to become fully the person she was created to be and feels she is on a life-time adventure of healing, loving and seeking to become the change she wants to see in the world. She feels blessed with her family, friends and the community around her.

Customer Reviews

"A must read. This book has been wonderfully written, very heartfelt. Its full of happy and painful emotions from life's experiences. This author is very gifted in her writing. would encourage her to write another book! as I couldn't put this one down. "

MARINA DUNN
"Anyone who has come in contact with the dreadful brain diseases of Alzheimer's and Dementia should read this book. Abused and ill treated as a child, Dawn Fanshawe's strong Christian belief overcame any bitterness which many would have felt. Relying heavily on her faith, she rides out a storm, which no one would wish to be found in. This is a well written story, telling how Dawn's mother at a relatively young age, succumbed to the scourge of Alzheimer's. It graphically recounts how Dawn, struggles to balance the needs of her immediate family along with the increasing needs of her mother. The author clearly lays bare a deep love for her mother, fragmented by an ever increasing awareness of her diminishing abilities to continue to care for her at home. This is a book I will never forget.
There is a very useful appendix detailing where carers can find help if faced by the situation Dawn Fanshawe found herself in.

Mike Kelley M.S.E. - Training Manager Canadian Occidental Oil Co. (Retired) Author, Public Speaker and Charity Trustee"

Mike Kelley
"Lost Down Memory Lane is a terrific read and provides an eye opening insight into the highs and lows of caring for a loved one suffering with Dementia.

Added to this moving story is a truly compelling back story which turns what would be a good book into a great book. I didn't know quite what to expect when I read it, but I can honesty say it surpassed all my expectations and then some. A good mixture of both humour and pathos left me wanting to read and read. There was always the creeping tension of how the story would end which is sustained by being wonderfully written.

Strongly recommend. "

Richard Hough
"This book is for readers who think they are dealing with a loved one with alzheimers, for readers who are living with someone with alzheimers and for readers who have coped and got through the journey with a loved one.
I laughed, cried and remembered whilst reading this book and couldn't read it quick enough.
This book gives advice and inspiration and above all raises awareness of what our unsung heroes go through on a daily basis. Well done Dawn."

Sue Kelly
"You will find this book hard to put down, but you may find it difficult to read. The author's brave recount of past abuses and present heartbreak provide a poignant contrast to the grace and love shown to her mother in the grip of Alzheimer's. A book to remember long after you have read the final page. "

Helen Hubbard
"A must read. This book has been wonderfully written, very heartfelt. Its full of happy and painful emotions from life's experiences. This author is very gifted in her writing. would encourage her to write another book! as I couldn't put this one down."

MARINA DUNN
"Anyone who has come in contact with the dreadful brain diseases of Alzheimer's and Dementia should read this book. Abused and ill treated as a child, Dawn Fanshawe's strong Christian belief overcame any bitterness which many would have felt. Relying heavily on her faith, she rides out a storm, which no one would wish to be found in. This is a well written story, telling how Dawn's mother at a relatively young age, succumbed to the scourge of Alzheimer's. It graphically recounts how Dawn, struggles to balance the needs of her immediate family along with the increasing needs of her mother. The author clearly lays bare a deep love for her mother, fragmented by an ever increasing awareness of her diminishing abilities to continue to care for her at home. This is a book I will never forget.
There is a very useful appendix detailing where carers can find help if faced by the situation Dawn Fanshawe found herself in.

Mike Kelley M.S.E. - Training Manager Canadian Occidental Oil Co. (Retired) Author, Public Speaker and Charity Trustee"

Mike Kelley
"Lost Down Memory Lane is a terrific read and provides an eye opening insight into the highs and lows of caring for a loved one suffering with Dementia.

Added to this moving story is a truly compelling back story which turns what would be a good book into a great book. I didn't know quite what to expect when I read it, but I can honesty say it surpassed all my expectations and then some. A good mixture of both humour and pathos left me wanting to read and read. There was always the creeping tension of how the story would end which is sustained by being wonderfully written.

Strongly recommend. "

Richard Hough
"This book is for readers who think they are dealing with a loved one with alzheimers, for readers who are living with someone with alzheimers and for readers who have coped and got through the journey with a loved one.
I laughed, cried and remembered whilst reading this book and couldn't read it quick enough.
This book gives advice and inspiration and above all raises awareness of what our unsung heroes go through on a daily basis. Well done Dawn. "

Sue Kelly
"You will find this book hard to put down, but you may find it difficult to read. The author's brave recount of past abuses and present heartbreak provide a poignant contrast to the grace and love shown to her mother in the grip of Alzheimer's. A book to remember long after you have read the final page."

Helen Hubbard
"A must read. This book has been wonderfully written, very heartfelt. Its full of happy and painful emotions from life's experiences. This author is very gifted in her writing. would encourage her to write another book! as I couldn't put this one down."

MARINA DUNN
"Anyone who has come in contact with the dreadful brain diseases of Alzheimer's and Dementia should read this book. Abused and ill treated as a child, Dawn Fanshawe's strong Christian belief overcame any bitterness which many would have felt. Relying heavily on her faith, she rides out a storm, which no one would wish to be found in. This is a well written story, telling how Dawn's mother at a relatively young age, succumbed to the scourge of Alzheimer's. It graphically recounts how Dawn, struggles to balance the needs of her immediate family along with the increasing needs of her mother. The author clearly lays bare a deep love for her mother, fragmented by an ever increasing awareness of her diminishing abilities to continue to care for her at home. This is a book I will never forget.
There is a very useful appendix detailing where carers can find help if faced by the situation Dawn Fanshawe found herself in.

Mike Kelley M.S.E. - Training Manager Canadian Occidental Oil Co. (Retired) Author, Public Speaker and Charity Trustee"

Mike Kelley
"Lost Down Memory Lane is a terrific read and provides an eye opening insight into the highs and lows of caring for a loved one suffering with Dementia.

Added to this moving story is a truly compelling back story which turns what would be a good book into a great book. I didn't know quite what to expect when I read it, but I can honesty say it surpassed all my expectations and then some. A good mixture of both humour and pathos left me wanting to read and read. There was always the creeping tension of how the story would end which is sustained by being wonderfully written.

Strongly recommend. "

Richard Hough
"This book is for readers who think they are dealing with a loved one with alzheimers, for readers who are living with someone with alzheimers and for readers who have coped and got through the journey with a loved one.
I laughed, cried and remembered whilst reading this book and couldn't read it quick enough.
This book gives advice and inspiration and above all raises awareness of what our unsung heroes go through on a daily basis. Well done Dawn. "

Sue Kelly
"You will find this book hard to put down, but you may find it difficult to read. The author's brave recount of past abuses and present heartbreak provide a poignant contrast to the grace and love shown to her mother in the grip of Alzheimer's. A book to remember long after you have read the final page."

Helen Hubbard

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