Other Alzheimer’s Memoirs

When my father’s dementia began, I read everything I could find about Alzheimer’s. Not the how-to books, which often left me feeling overwhelmed and inadequate, but the personal stories I found in dozens of memoirs. These were a lifeline to me as I struggled to understand this disease. There’s some beautiful writing here, and many remarkable portraits.

• The Caregiver by Aaron Alterra
• Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon
• Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
• I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
• Caring for Mother by Virginia Stem Owens
• A Troubled Guest by Nancy Mairs
• Hard to Forget by Charles Pierce
• The Forgetting by David Shenk
• The Story of My Father by Sue Miller
• Death in Slow Motion by Eleanor Cooney
• Looking After by John Daniels
• The Myth of Alzheimer’s by Peter Whitehouse
• The Bad Daughter by Julie Hilden
• The Family on Beartown Road by Elizabeth Cohen
• Voices of Alzheimer’s by Betsy Peterson
• Memory Lessons by Jerald Winakur
• Do You Remember Me? by Judith Levine
• Dancing with Rose by Lauren Kessler
• Memory’s Ghost by Philip J. Hilts
• No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh
• Mothering Mother by Carol O’Dell
• 25 Months by Linda McK. Stewart
• Measure of the Heart by Mary Ellen Geist

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