Have you had to experience the grueling process of losing a family member, especially drawn out over a long period of time?
Introducing The Long Goodbye: Family Life Through Alzheimer's.
On the journey of her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer's disease, author, Kerri Kitay, along with her family discovered hard earned knowledge and dealt with the extreme pain of watching their loved one fade away. Kerri very candidly lends her insight on the journey from prognosis to realizing the signs they missed to forging a stronger than ever bond with her family through grief.
If you’ve ever had a similar experience or have a loved one going through something and just want understanding, then this is the Cuppa for you.
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About Keri Keri Kitay
Keri Kitay is a communications professional who has a passion for health and wellbeing. Witnessing the devastating impacts Alzheimer's has on a person, she feels it is her duty and responsibility to educate people and provide knowledge and tools to make better informed health decisions.
Keri is also a sister, daughter, granddaughter, aunty, friend and colleague who generally believes in the welfare of others. She is a fitness ambassador for CHeBA (The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing) and a board member for UIA (United Israel Appeal).
Keri has also had a fulfilling career working in the health, fitness and sport industry with national and global brands delivering key events and campaigns. She is an entrepreneur at heart and has a passion for storytelling.
Have you had to experience the grueling process of losing a family member, especially drawn out over a long period of time?
The Long Goodbye: Lessons on humanity from the grips of Alzheimer's
A powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, in The Long Goodbye, Keri Kitay charts her family's poignant and devastating journey after their mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease.
When Keri Kitay's mother, Terry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, nothing could have prepared her family for what lay ahead. The diagnosis and the years that followed rocked their world in unimaginable ways.
In this powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, Keri charts her family's journey: what life was like before Alzheimer's, the early signs that everybody missed, the day they got the shattering news, coming to terms with the grim prognosis . . . and most devastatingly, witnessing the woman they knew and loved slowly fade away.
Poignant and moving, The Long Goodbye is a stirring account of losing a parent to the ravages of an unforgiving disease and a heartfelt exploration of what it means to face this with grace and dignity.
This is a story about ordinary family ties which became extraordinary through necessity, about unbreakable bonds and unconditional love, and what holds us close even in the most heartbreaking of circumstances.
