Some illnesses arrive with pain, urgency, or a clear medical report. Dementia often begins more quietly, through a forgotten birthday, a repeated question, a familiar word that takes a moment longer to return.
For one daughter, that forgotten birthday still lingers. Her mother had spent a lifetime guiding students, managing responsibilities, and holding a family together with quiet assurance. When the subtle changes began, each one carried a reasonable explanation: age, fatigue, stress, relocation, emotional strain. A reassuring medical report offered a moment of hope, yet the shifts in everyday life told a story no test could fully measure.
Dementia Unveiled is written by Dr. Sangeeta Narang nee Madan, a physician, teacher, and public health professional with nearly four decades of clinical experience, drawing on both her medical training and her lived experience caring for her own mother through dementia. The book brings medical understanding into the realities of home, where care is shaped through routines, relationships, difficult decisions, and the continuing effort to preserve dignity.
The book unfolds across five parts:
- Part I, Before We Understood What Was Changing: the early signs, the reassurances, and the report the family trusted
- Part II, When the Medical Story Became More Complicated: new symptoms, difficult scans, and hard decisions
- Part III, When Dementia Was Named: the diagnosis, and what later scans revealed
- Part IV, Building Care Around a Person: creating a home environment that preserves identity and dignity.
This book is for:- Families caring for a loved one with dementia or early cognitive decline
- Healthcare professionals seeking to understand the lived, human experience behind a diagnosis
- Anyone who has ever sensed a change in someone they love before they could name it
Because the person behind the illness continues far beyond the diagnosis, and deserves to be seen that way until the end.
