Do I Know You?: Family's Journey Through Aging and Alzheimer's FROM THE PUBLISHER
After her husband died, Mary Solomon moved to Florida and, much to the surprise of her two grown daughters, created a new life for herself in a seaside condo Ten happy years passed before, slowly and almost imperceptibly, her decline began. "Do I Know You?" is a clear-eyed account of one woman's neurological slide into advanced senility. Sorting through the telltale signs of Mary Solomon's deteriorating condition -- stale crackers in an otherwise empty refrigerator, once immaculate floors turned sticky, unpaid bills, forgetfulness, withdrawal -- Bette Ann Moskowitz has created an unforgettable portrait of an ordinary-woman at the end of her life. That Mary Solomon is her mother makes the story all the more unsettling and powerful.
Moskowitz has voiced the questions that every one of us will one day have to ask When do you become the parent to your own parent? How do you balance the desire to protect the dignity and independence of the elderly with the desire that they be safe? How would you want to grow old? Never has this passage been written about with such perceptiveness, acceptance and compassion. While this journey will be different for everyone, "Do I Know You?" provides reassurance and guidance where there has been little and a sense of grace and hope where there has been none at all.
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