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The Day after Yesterday by Joe Wallace
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Oct 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780262048606

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“Wallace is a photographer whose portraits of dementia patients — sometimes posed with their spouses or children — have been in a traveling exhibit throughout Massachusetts and elsewhere for a couple of years. They are straightforward, ennobling and often quite glamorous, not so many degrees off from Marion Ettlinger’s famous author photos…Crucially, “The Day After Yesterday,” its title the utterance of a former theater teacher with early-onset Alzheimer’s trying to make sense of time, includes photos of its subjects’ earlier selves: a onetime antiques dealer who met her husband after crawling under a tablecloth at a dinner party; a broad-smiling Bostonian who can’t remember the 25 years she worked assembling phone books for New England Telephone; a former homeland security analyst cogent enough to compare her condition to “mini acid trips.”It’s a jolting corrective to the default euphemizing (including by Wallace) of dementia and other incurable diseases as a “journey.””
The New York Times Book Review

“A taboo surrounds dementia and Alzheimer’s, a cloud of fear and misunderstanding that distances people from those with the disease, relegates them as gone, lost, other. “The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia” (MIT), a new book of photographs by journalist and photographer Joe Wallace, aims to destigmatize the people living with dementia by telling “a more complex and complete story.” The book includes dozens of portraits and short written bios and descriptions of Wallace’s encounters with the subjects. The range of ages is striking: people in their 30s, having inherited a mutation that brings Alzheimer’s to them early, all the way to age 100. “It doesn’t matter how far gone they are into the disease,” says Daisy Duarte, who’s guaranteed to have it by age 65. “They still have ears, and they still have a beating heart.” That beating heart, that vitality, and life-force, is present in all of Wallace’s portraits. Alan O’Hare, of Dorchester, speaks of learning to have patience with yourself, and asking questions that ground you in the now: “What is it in this moment that you treasure? What is it about you that you treasure in this moment? Can you remember what you love about you? What do you love about right here, right now?” These photographs and words underline not just the fear and despair, because those are real, but the dignity and the humanity of people with the disease. In each image, one can see the burning twinkle behind the eyes that shows, I’m here, I’m here.”
The Boston Globe

“It’s a delightful, heartbreaking, tearful, surprising collection of profiles . . . This powerful book is great for someone with a new dementia diagnosis; it proves that life’s not over yet. It’s likewise great for a caregiver, gently ushering them toward grace. Get The Day After Yesterday. It’s time for a talk.”
—Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez

“A compelling new book.”
—The Alzheimer’s Association blog

Table Of Contents

viii PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTION
A Conversation between David Shenk and Joe Wallace
9 PORTRAITS
CHARLIE HESS | 11
DAISY DUARTE | 15
JAY REINSTEIN | 19
EDWINA FRANK | 22
GENTLE VANDEBURGH | 27
JUANITA PETERSON | 33
PHYLLIS NEWELL KIRKPATRICK | 36
JIM BUTLER | 38
BAMA BRADLEY | 42
ARTHENA CASTON | 46
BE STRONG IN THE BROKEN PLACES | 50 by Greg O’Brien
WILLIAM FOGGLE | 54
MIKE BELLEVILLE | 59
CARRIE + BRYAN | 62
HANNAH RICHARDSON | 68
HELEN TUNG | 72
RENEE PERKINS | 75
JOHN HUNZIKER | 78
B. J. FOX | 82
ARTHUR MAZMAN | 85
ANDRES MARTIN | 88
BONNIE ERICKSON | 92
PAK HUP TOM | 96
CATHY SHAW | 98
AINE WALSH | 100
ZHIFEN WU | 102
FRANCES BASSI | 105
LARRY BAYLES | 108
RICHARD WRIGHT | 114
BILL ZECKHAUSEN | 118
DOROTHY CASTELLUCCI | 122
GEORGE BLACKWELL | 124
BOB LOWE | 126
MICHAEL MCCORMACK | 129
TSU-MING WU | 132
MARTHA VIOLA JORDAN | 136
ALAN O’HARE | 138
SUE BLACK | 142
TED BLAZAK | 144
147 ENDING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN OUR LIFETIME by Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi
154 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
157 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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