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These “moving and often surprising” (The Wall Street Journal) case histories meld science and storytelling to show that caregivers don’t just witness cognitive decline in their loved ones with dementia—they are its invisible victims. “This book will forever change the way we see people with dementia disorders—and the people who care for them.”—Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Inspired by Dasha Kiper’s experience as a c...

Caring for a loved-one with dementia can be deeply confounding. These deeply compassionate, beautifully observed case studies illuminate what's at work in this symbiotic relationship and remind us there is no such thing as the perfect caregiver.Dasha Kiper was twenty-five and getting her master's in clinical psychology when she took a leave of absence and began to look after a Holocaust survivor with middle-stage Alzheimer's. For a year, she l...