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Where is Alice?: A book on hope and re-humanization

Where is Alice?: A book on hope and re-humanization

Duriaux, Patrick

Paperback

Aging & Elder CareHealth GeneralSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798258968524
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Someone near you may be invisible. Have you looked?

When Patrick Duriaux met Alice, his 84-year-old neighbour, in the stairwell of his apartment building, he had no idea that their brief conversation would change the direction of his life. Behind her warmth and dignity, he sensed something that millions of people experience but rarely admit: the quiet pain of feeling unseen, forgotten, or disconnected from the world around them.

In Where Is Alice?, Patrick combines Alice's story with personal reflections, international research, real-life encounters, and conversations with people across generations to explore the growing epidemic of loneliness.

Loneliness does not belong to one age group. It can affect the young person with thousands of online followers but no one they feel they can call. It can affect the busy professional surrounded by colleagues yet eating alone in another hotel restaurant. It can affect the caregiver who spends so much time looking after others that they slowly lose their own sense of connection. And it can affect older adults whose worlds have quietly grown smaller through retirement, bereavement, declining mobility, and family members moving away.

This is a book about what becomes possible when we begin to notice one another again. The book explores:

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