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Home / Lewy Body Dementia

Found Stories of Losing Memories

Dec. 6, 2020 by Kevin Wolf

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Dad’s not all there anymore Bird in a Cage Little Josephine: Memory in Pieces Heavy Snow: My Father’s Disappearance into Alzheimer’s At a Particular Age: Heavy Snow Revisited Sea Sirens: A Trot & Cap’n Bill Adventure   Book Reviews by Kevin Wolf     The graphic medicine works reviewed here are often—and rightly so—from the caretaker’s perspective and the outward manifestations of the patient, but not the patient’s thoughts or first-person accounts. Some artists of these works use surrealistic imagery to guess at the patients’ inner life. The primary medical topic covered in these graphic works is Alzheimer’s and other… Read More

Tags: alzheimer's disease, dementia, Lewy Body Dementia

Dad’s not all there anymore: Lewy Body Dementia comic

Nov. 14, 2012 by Ian Williams

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Alex Demetris got in touch recently. He’s working on a comic about Lewy Body Dementia. It looks very interesting and I can’t wait to see more (there is a printed copy in the post to me!). This is what Alex has to say about his project: ‘Having produced numerous cartoons and short comic strips over the past six years, last autumn I decided to enrol on an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts in order to explore fully my interest in producing a longer narrative comic.  In 2007 my father had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia,… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine Tags: Alex Demetris, comics, dementia, Lewy Body Dementia, mental health

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