Dementia: A Positive Response

Dementia is a major medical and social problem. It is a serious and progressive condition that can affect every area of life. By 2025 there will be 1 million people in UK with dementia, 1 in 6 people over 80 and a significant number of younger people. It affects a wide circle of those around each individual.

Take appropriate steps and progression may be slowed, enabling years of interesting and companionable, comfortable and enjoyable life.

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Those with dementia need and deserve much personal loving care!

This book contains practical advice about how best to provide good and appropriate support. Whether you are someone with dementia, a personal carer, a family member or someone with a concern about the condition, you will find reasons for hope and positive encouragement. In simple language it sets out the current understanding about the condition and practical ways to help those living with the disease.

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"Being diagnosed with dementia is surely always devastating and increasingly life-changing. However, 'Dementia: a positive response' demonstrates clearly that all is not total darkness. In this easy-to-read book, we learn (perhaps surprisingly) that there can be positives for both victim and carer - including ways in which we can reduce the likelihood of developing dementia or slowing its progress.

Further, we are reminded that a Christian perspective gives an added dimension: "...even if much of the brain has been destroyed, the soul remains. The real person is still there, fully remembered, known to and deeply loved by God, and worthy of care and respect." And those last five words provide the basis for the individual person-centred supportive care championed throughout the book. Strongly recommended."

Dr Robert Twycross (FRCP)
Emeritus Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University

"This delightful book of analysis, anecdote and comic insights is a welcome antidote to the pessimism that dominates so much commentary on the contemporary scourge of dementia. As a practising lawyer and a priest, I only wish William Cutting's book had been available when I was training in each profession. I commend it for careful study by students and practitioners in both - and by everyone with an interest in human development and decline."

Canon John Rees
Legal Adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury

"This is the most inspiring and helpful book on dementia that I have read. For those concerned that their forgetfulness is an early sign of this illness, for those needing practical help in living with dementia, for carers, especially those on the edge of burn out, for Christians who feel God has abandoned them in this illness and for churches and communities wanting to offer a dementia-friendly environment and appropriate pastoral care, reading and learning from this book will be invaluable.

This book is written with clarity, deep insight and understanding, Christian love and a good dose of humour. Dementia touches us all in one way or another on our journey through life so get reading!"

Dr Gareth Tuckwell
Retired hospice medical director and chairman of Sanctuary Care (which provides a home for thousands with dementia).

"William Cutting's book is superb, positive and covers just about every aspect of dementia in a way that is easily understood. It is interspersed with delightful drawings, amusing pieces and personal stories. He has also drawn together much that is helpful from many other sources. This book should be a great encouragement and valuable resource for many."

Dr. Jennifer Bute
Former GP and Founder of Glorious Opportunity website, after she was diagnosed with dementia, to support others living with de

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