A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond: Love in a Whirlwind - Paperback

by Laurel Richardson (Author)

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband's Ernest Lockridge's life - from his transient amnesia to his death from Lewy Body Dementia.

Author Biography

Laurel Richardson is a Distinguished Emeritus Academy Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University, USA. She has been honored with Lifetime Achievement awards in her profession and in Who's Who in America and the world, and is the author of eleven previous books.

Ernest Lockridge, a Yale Ph.D., was an Emeritus Professor of English at The Ohio State University, author of three novels, a jazz musician and a visual artist.

Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge were married from 1980 until Ernest's death in 2020.