Hi Everyone!
My Dad, a former professor, has dementia, and he's deteriorating fast. In two months, he went from conversations in complete sentences, to barely being able to look at you, and only saying "yes" and "no."
I looked up "what to read to elders with dementia" and found a couple of anthologies of short stories put together specifically to be read to dementia patients. I got one today and started reading it to my Dad, and after three stories, we had a short conversation, in complete sentences!
The problem is, I only found two of these anthologies. However, the anthologies aren't dumbed down, they're just very short stories (maybe 1500 words or less), which are light and in the vein of personal anecdotes (like "what my weird Uncle Bob did that one time" and "our battle against the bees that lived in the chimney" and "how grandma brought my little brother out of a coma with chocolate roses."
So I'm looking for collections and anthologies of similar stories, either fiction or memoir, or else novels in stories or memoirs in episodes. They should be light, can be humorous, must be short (less than 2000 words), and should be anecdote-y and fairly straightforward (i.e.: not convoluted.)
Thanks!
by JadieJang