When Your Parent Becomes Your Child by Ken Abraham

This book chronicles the author’s journey with his mother through dementia. It provides both instruction about the decline and encouragement through the process. Having no experience with anyone with dementia, I found this book very interesting, discovering that its effects are more far reaching than simply memory loss. Ken Abraham put a very human face on the process, both for himself and for his mother. While I appreciated the author’s desire to be thorough, at times the book bogged down with repetition. This book was illuminating, but I would not necessarily recommend it to everyone. The author’s honest description of his mother’s decline, especially her physical decline, could be very disheartening to someone at the beginning of the journey with someone. It is a good work to read before you know anyone facing this disease; it could be very bleak to read it while going through it with someone. I received this book for free in exchange for my unbiased review through the Thomas Nelson BookSneeze Program.