Detailing her first-hand experience caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s, lawyer and author Mary Moreland translates her most painful journey into help for other families facing the devastating illness. The Gap Between: Loving and Supporting Someone with Alzheimer’s reveals Moreland’s process through the stages of grief as she struggles to come to terms with her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in the wake of her father’s death. Bravely sharing her mother’s decade long battle, she walks readers through the earliest phases of the disease, all the way to her mother’s deathbed.

Alongside her own story of loss, the author delivers insights on protecting and grieving for loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s, and provides advice on navigating critical matters including legal documentation, diagnostic and educational resources, preparing for and accepting deterioration, and the end of life experience. Moreland’s remarkable debut book is defined by candor and courage that will resonate with those most in need of her vital perspective.