Dementia is a condition which progressively destroys the ability to remember or to communicate in an everyday sense. However there remains, often until the final stages of the disease, an intuitive impulse within the sufferer toward the use of metaphorical language. Poetry appears to be a very natural outlet enabling people with dementia to communicate both the autobiographical and the universal through their use of words. These poems are woven together by Karen Hayes acting as editor and scribe, from original conversations by the authors.
