From Our Family to Your Family – Sharing Our Journey to Help Your Journey”I know well that families coping with dementia find useful insights, tips, acknowledgement, and empathy in a myriad of forms. For those who embrace the soothing, probing wisdom of poetry, we now have Pat Mc Taggart’s Our Dementia Journey. ‘Everyone has a poem in them,’ Pat writes. This parental tribute is a fount of affirmation for those of us touched by Alzheimer’s–and may even inspire you to pen your own.”“A wonderful tribute and aid.”Paula Spencer Scott, Award-winning journalist and author of Surviving Alzheimer’s: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers“This collection of poems that Pat has written is both touching and uplifting. It shows the heartache and the love present in his family’s dementia journey.
We’re so grateful to Pat for supporting Alzheimer’s Research UK. Fantastic fundraising efforts like this collection of poems will help us to make life-changing research breakthroughs for people with dementia.”Bernie Carranza, Regional Fundraising Officer at Alzheimer’s Research UKA collection of heartfelt and emotional poems about one family’s journey with dementia including messages of hope and advice for those on the same journey.
At the same time it is an uplifting collection of poems in its own right showing the power of the human spirit to overcome challenges with faith, hope and love.
Written from the perspective of a son caring for his Dad who has dementia and his Mum who has other health issues, the poems take us through the family’s dementia journey and include reflections and thoughts on different aspects of the journey from the perspective of his Dad, as well as the rest of the family.
A series of poems also looks at the emotional challenges faced by carers who can feel all sorts of emotions, often all at the same time and how they need to find a way of caring for their loved one while also coping and caring for themselves.
Some poems in the collection also look at the impact of the Covid Pandemic and also the Dementia bigger picture in terms of the Dementia “pandemic” that the world is facing.
The author has written this collection of poems as a celebration of his Mum and Dad and the family’s love for them.
It is also his strong hope that the messages in the poems help others avoid some of the pain and emotional stresses he suffered and that there are there are one or two nuggets in the book that will be helpful to others at some stage of their journey.
All author royalties for the book will go to Alzheimers Research UK the world’s largest dedicated dementia research charity who do research worldwide aimed at finding a cure for the dementia.
The author also invites readers to benefit from the power of poetry and contribute a poem for publication in a further collection of poems again to be published in aid of dementia charities.
More details on the book and the author at:www.poemsfordementia.com I hope you enjoy the book and will be kind enough to leave a review and a rating on Amazon[First Edition: Colour print]
