Crossroads

A touching memoir of one daughter's personal journey while caring for her father, who was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, and her mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer's. It follows the author's transition from caring for her parents in their home, to making the painful decision to move them into an aged care facility. This insightful story reveals powerful emotion, humorous conversation and incredible insight, as the author shares her frustration, and how her and her family coped with tremendous change. In both personal and private moments of fear, confusion, and exasperating repetitivness, the author shares with us her painful learning curves. This empowering story ends after three years, when both parents pass away within forty days of one another. For families who find themselves in a similar situation, this book helps them to understand what can be expected when a parent has dementia, a neurological illness or a physical disability. Given the ever-increasing aged population and rising prevalence of dementia, this book is a timely and most needed story.