If Memory Serves Me Wrong (eBook)
256 Seiten
New Island (Verlag)
978-1-84840-808-1 (ISBN)
So in 2014, when Ronan himself was diagnosed with the same illness, he knew exactly what the coming years would hold. But, unlike his father, Ronan chose to face his future positively, turning from work towards family, improving his diet and advocating for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. In doing so, Ronan's radically different approach to this all-too-common disease has significantly changed the narrative around it in Ireland.
Written in real time, If Memory Serves Me Wrong is a rare first-hand account of the experience of being both a family carer and of living with dementia. It is also a heartrending, sometimes harrowing and very often humorous memoir about the power of love in facing an uncertain future.
RONAN SMITH (born 1957) has had a distinguished career as an actor, director and producer, working in most of the major theatres in Dublin and with many of Ireland's leading companies on projects big and small, from The Gaiety Theatre pantomime to the iconic Riverdance. He has served in a voluntary capacity on many boards in the fields of education and health as well as in the arts, and later became an advocate for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and a founding member of the Irish Dementia Working Group. Ronan lives in Lacken, County Wicklow, with his wife Miriam and their two children Hannah and Loughlin. SUE LEONARD is a journalist and bestselling ghostwriter and is the co-author of two number-one bestsellers: An Act of Love with Marie Fleming (2014) and Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women (2015). Sue has written extensively for the Irish Independent, the Irish Examiner, the Evening Herald, Image magazine and numerous other publications. She has interviewed countless authors, including eleven winners of the Booker Prize. Sue was born in Oxford, and lives in County Wicklow.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2021 |
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Co-Autor | Sue Leonard |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie | |
Schlagworte | Abbey Theatre • Acting • Actor • advocacy work • Age-related illness • Alzheimer's • Alzheimer's disease • Alzheimer's Society of Ireland • Azheimer Society of Ireland • Beryl Fagan • Biography • Blessington Lake • bravery • Brendan Smith • Brendan Smith Academy of Acting • Broadway • Caring • caring for a spouse • Cognition • dementia • Dementia Working Group • Diagnosis • diet • Director • Disease • DNA • Donal Lynch • Dublin • Dublin's Gaiety Theatre • Dublin Theatre • Early Onset Alzheimer's • Eurovision Song Contest • Family carer • family life • Father and Son • Gate Theatre • Ghost writing • Glenroe • Glenroe RTÉ • Global Brain Health Institute • Health • Hope • Human I • Human Interest • Humour • If Memory Serves Me Wrong • I Found My Tribe • Illness • Inherited Illness • Ireland • Irish Actor • Irish theatre • Irish Theatre Dublin • John McColgan • Julian Erskine • Ketogenic diet • legacy • lived experience • liz nugent • Love • Loyalty • marriage • Memoir • Memory • Memory loss • Michael D. Higgins • Miriam Brady • Moya Doherty • Neuroscience • New Island Books • Patient • patient advocacy • Positive Mental Attitude • Positivity • Prof Ian Robertson • Resilience • Riverdance • Roddy Doyle • Ronan Smith • RTÉ • Ruth Fitzmaurice • Science • Scientific research • secrecy • Shame • Short-term memory • Short-term memory loss • Sue Leonard • Sunday Independent • Theatre • Theatre Production • The Gaiety • the Olympia theatre • The Pirate Queen • thespians • Wicklow |
ISBN-10 | 1-84840-808-0 / 1848408080 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84840-808-1 / 9781848408081 |
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