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Tom met Judy, the love of his life, when she was seventy-three and he sixty. For eight years, they traveled the world from the United States and Europe to New Zealand, indulging in a relationship it had taken each of them a lifetime to find. Then, Judy began struggling to speak the words hovering in her mind, and math that had once been a breeze for her sharp mind became opaque and unretrievable. A neurological appointment confirmed the worst: Judy was beginning to experience dementia, ""the cruelest disease."" Love and Dementia, Grief and Recovery is a story of pain and resilience. Told through Judy's journals and Tom's meditations on his time as a caregiver, this candid, loving conversation on memory loss is a vital read for those who are looking for hope, camaraderie, strength, and faith in the face of dementia. This memoir of dementia is a love story to replenish the hearts of caregivers.

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Tom Eckhardt is a Chicago native and graduate of Northwestern University. Following a thirty-year career at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Tom continues to live in the Twin Cities, where he concentrates on his family and faith community, aging healthfully and socially with friends, and maintaining his own memories of and love for his wife, Judy.

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