Dementia can be a cruel disease, both for the people with the condition and those who love and look after them Jorm Sangsorn/iStockphoto/Getty Images
Dasha Kiper (Profile Books)
PEOPLE who care for those living with dementia, says Dasha Kiper, are its 鈥渋nvisible victims鈥, rarely discussed in the research literature and given little support. Kiper has made a career out of listening to them. At 25, she moved in with a聽98-year-old Holocaust survivor in聽the early stages of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and, after completing a master鈥檚 in clinical psychology, she聽spent 10 years counselling carers and running support groups.…
