The Vanishing cover art

The Vanishing

Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Vanishing

By: Anu Silfverberg
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £7.52

Buy Now for £7.52

About this listen

By 2050, nearly 115 million people in the world will have Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. But when our memories fade, what do we become - a shadow of our old selves or somebody new?

After losing her grandmother to Alzheimer's, writer Anu Silfverberg travels to see the future of dementia care. In the Netherlands, a new kind of care home lets patients live in their own pasts. Here, you'll find gated gardens and a pub for the demented along with a stylized class system designed by a team of consultants. A surprise lesson: Dementia isn't a walking death after all. It's another way of living.

The Vanishing is a cross between essay and reportage, produced by Long Play, a publisher of investigative long-form journalism based in Finland. Anu Silfverberg is an award-winning journalist and author from Helsinki, Finland.

©2014 Anu Silfververberg (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Aging Parent Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Dementia Alzheimer's Disease
No reviews yet