![]() ![]() This is one of many startling and moving case studies of dementia sufferers and their carers in Travellers to Unimaginable Lands, a book so humane and quietly profound that everyone should read it. Despite this harsh treatment, Elizabeth blames herself for Mitch’s behaviour, saying that she is the one who caused it by “pleading and arguing” with him. Sometimes, he throws Elizabeth out and she is forced to sleep in the hallway. When Elizabeth shows Mitch evidence of their shared lives - a wedding photograph, for example - he accuses her of lying. ![]() Every evening, Elizabeth has to go through an elaborate rigmarole of trying to persuade her own husband to let her stay in the apartment where they have lived together for 15 years. One of the case studies in Kiper’s book concerns Mitch, an elderly man in New York who has forgotten that he lives with his wife Elizabeth, or that she even is his wife. ![]()
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