Sociologist Ranabir Samaddar shares the story of his wife, Krishna Bhattacharya’s fight against Alzheimer’s, while also recounting the confusing, heartrending, often frustrating, but also uplifting, experience of living with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s. This is the story of Krishna Bhattacharya’s fight against Alzheimer’s, written by her husband. It is a frank, sensitive and unsentimental account of inadequate medical heartrending, often frustrating, but also uplifting, experience of living with a loved one who is living with Alzheimer’s. In this moving account, Ranabir Samaddar turns his attention to one of the most critical issues of human life today. He writes with the insight of a sociologist and the compassion knowledge; of the importance of care; the ethics of caregiving; and the confusing, of one for whom ‘quality of life’ depends as much, or more, on human interaction and empathy as it does on palliative therapy.
