Sign-In
Cart
Descent Into Darkness: Lewy Body Dementia
Paperback
Biographies GeneralAging & Elder CareAlzheimer's & Dementia
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781970530179
Publisher: Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When Basil B. Clark's wife, Cora, was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, their lives changed forever.
Unsure how to carry the emotional weight of caregiving, Basil began writing private journal entries to their faithful cat, Little Bit. Those letters became a lifeline, a place to record sleepless nights, frightening hallucinations, difficult medical decisions, heartbreaking losses, unexpected moments of humor, and the unwavering love that remained even as dementia gradually changed the woman he cherished.
Descent into Darkness: Lewy Body Dementia is more than a memoir. It is an intimate portrait of one husband's determination to preserve his wife's dignity while navigating the daily realities of Lewy body dementia, one of the most challenging and misunderstood forms of dementia.
With additional reflections from Cynthia L. French, the book also offers insight into illness, vulnerability, and caregiving from a woman's perspective, creating a fuller picture of the emotional journey families experience.
For spouses, adult children, family caregivers, veterans, healthcare professionals, and anyone walking beside a loved one with dementia, this book offers more than a story, it offers understanding, validation, and the reassurance that no caregiver walks this difficult road alone.
Also from
Clark, Basil B.
Poetic Healing: A Vietnam Veteran's Journey from a Communication Perspective, Revised and Expanded Edition
Clark, Basil B.
Huglen, Mark E.
Paperback
Also in
Biographies General
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Pete Welding (ED.)
Toby Byron (ED.)
Hardcover
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
Hacohen, Malachi Haim
Hardcover
The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
Freeman, Charles
Hardcover
Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky
Sackier, Shelley
Hardcover
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, Walter
Hardcover
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Howe, Sean
Hardcover
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
Correia, David
Hardcover
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Cooper, Christian
Hardcover
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Womens Political Culture, 1830-1900
Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Paperback
The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel
Williams, Olivia
Paperback
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Wittman, Robert K.
Kinney, David
Paperback
The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling
Fotheringham, William
Paperback
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Cordingly, David
Paperback
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paperback
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Cherington, Gretchen
Paperback
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Wander
Hardcover
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
Hardcover
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela
Hardcover
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paperback
Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Kuehn, Christine
Hardcover