Living with Dementia

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2024

ISBN-13: 9781774713372

<p><b>The collected columns from former reporter and head of CBC current affairs, illuminating his experience following a dementia diagnosis.</b></p>

<p>In 2013 Darce Fardy was diagnosed with dementia. He was eighty-one years old.</p>

<p>Fardy did not let the diagnosis get him down. Not only did he accept the situation and the likely consequences; he practically embraced them. As a former journalist, it was natural for him to document his experience. Over the next six years, almost seventy of his columns were published in the <i>Halifax Chronicle Herald</i>, serving as a window on his deteriorating condition.</p>

<p>But the columns revealed something else: the extent to which dementia touched other people’s lives. Everyone seemed to have a story about a loved one who was dealing with some form of dementia&#8212;and readers were grateful for his insights.</p>

<p>Fardy kept writing until early 2020, when his ability to piece together a five hundred–word essay was finally out of reach. He died two years later.</p>

<p>Here, Fardy's columns have been compiled into a poignant and illuminating collection that serves to both honour him and destigmatize the disease. Published in cooperation with the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia, <i>Living with Dementia</i> features forty black-and-white photos, a foreword and several columns by prominent Halifax geriatrician Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, and practical guidance from the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia. </p>

<p>Royalties from the sale of <i>Living with Dementia</i> will be donated to the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia.</p><p><b>The collected columns from former reporter and head of CBC current affairs, illuminating his experience following a dementia diagnosis.</b></p>

<p>In 2013 Darce Fardy was diagnosed with dementia. He was eighty-one years old.</p>

<p>Fardy did not let the diagnosis get him down. Not only did he accept the situation and the likely consequences; he practically embraced them. As a former journalist, it was natural for him to document his experience. Over the next six years, almost seventy of his columns were published in the <i>Halifax Chronicle Herald</i>, serving as a window on his deteriorating condition.</p>

<p>But the columns revealed something else: the extent to which dementia touched other people’s lives. Everyone seemed to have a story about a loved one who was dealing with some form of dementia&#8212;and readers were grateful for his insights.</p>

<p>Fardy kept writing until early 2020, when his ability to piece together a five hundred–word essay was finally out of reach. He died two years later.</p>

<p>Here, Fardy's columns have been compiled into a poignant and illuminating collection that serves to both honour him and destigmatize the disease. Published in cooperation with the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia, <i>Living with Dementia</i> features forty black-and-white photos, a foreword and several columns by prominent Halifax geriatrician Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, and practical guidance from the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia. </p>

<p>Royalties from the sale of <i>Living with Dementia</i> will be donated to the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia.</p>