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Bad Company: The Final Year of My Father's Dementia Descent

Bad Company: The Final Year of My Father's Dementia Descent

DiGregorio, Emilio

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ISBN13: 9798997243609
Publisher: Black Chair Press
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This memoir by Emilio DiGregorio examines the complexities of an elderly parent's dementia, father-son relationships, and the realities of caregiving. Darkly funny and unflinching, Bad Company: The Final Year of My Father's Dementia Descent explores the complex grief of watching a parent lose themselves to dementia and the struggles of acting as a caregiver.

What happens when your hero begins to disappear? First with glitches-minor memory lapses and little symptoms easily mistaken for normal aging. But soon, sooner than you're ready for, the shift happens and the person you knew has changed. As the insidious mind-robbing disease takes hold, it whittles away a lifetime of shared history, reducing a loving father to a stranger, lost in a deep and forever fog.

In Bad Company, author DiGregorio delivers an honest look at watching his father slip away, and shares the reality of grieving a man who hasn't died. Blending sharp observation with dark humor, this poignant caregiving memoir addresses:

  • The emotional weight of caregiving: Navigating grief, guilt, filial duty, and caregiver burnout while supporting a loved one with memory loss.
  • Fathers and sons: Exploring masculinity, generational expectations, and changing family dynamics as roles reverse.
  • The slow collapse: Managing the mental strain on adult children and family members scrambling to hold everything together.
For anyone coping with a parent's Alzheimer's disease, dementia diagnosis, or late-life health decline, Bad Company: The Final Year of My Father's Dementia Descent offers an authentic, intensely personal, and deeply moving portrayal of love, grief, and the heartbreak of moving forward in the face of cognitive decline.

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