Living with Dementia

The Collected Columns of Darce Fardy

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Pub Date 28 Aug 2024 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2024
Nimbus Publishing | Nimbus Publishing Limited

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

In 2013 Darce Fardy was diagnosed with dementia. He was eighty-one years old.

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 Halifax Chronicle Herald, serving as a window on his deteriorating condition.

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—and readers were grateful for his insights.

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.

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, Living with Dementia 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.

Royalties from the sale of Living with Dementia will be donated to the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia.

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

In 2013 Darce Fardy was diagnosed with dementia. He was...


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As someone who has a family member that dealt with dementia, this was a great and helpful guide I wish I had to help cope and give me advice

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Well-worth the read. Dementia is one of the cruelest conditions, and most people know someone affected by it. This collection of columns by Darce Fardy after his dementia diagnosis was a very fascinating, heartbreaking, and, in some ways, optimistic glimpse into the mental state of someone with his condition over about a 6 year period.

Darce's words were very touching, and I admired his optimism and resilience as he wrote about his fears of losing memories of family and friends and of being a burden to his loved ones. I didn't plan on reading this in less than a day, but once I started reading, I found it difficult to stop.

Highly recommend.

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I received a free copy of, Living with Dementia, by Darce Fardy, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Alzheimer's is a horrible robbing people of their memories. Darce Fardy was 81 when he was diagnosed with dementia, he decided to tell people, through his newspaper column, about living with dementia. This was a really interesting and honest read.

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Great read to “see” through the eyes of someone with dementia and note the repetitiveness as his disease progressed. As someone with a family member with dementia it was unique to read these articles written by someone going through the experience.

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