No-one knows what to expect when a loved one is diagnosed with dementia - and Kit Derrick’s book ‘Has The Lady Been Yet?’ follows his journey down this path.
Kit uses real life experiences, poetry and some fiction to tell his family's story and to highlight the process and impact on dementia sufferers and family members. The book also explores an important fact for Kit - "that there is always hope".
His mum, who Kit chooses not to name in his work, was diagnosed aged 81, the year before her death at 82 in summer 2019. The family and her GP knew something was not right from a year or two before the official diagnosis by specialists.
