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title: "Dementia Together - Center for Nonviolent Communication"
description: "Dementia Together - How to Communicate to Connect. A guide to nurturing healthy, empathetic relationships with those having dementia. Authored by Pati Bielak-Smith"
url: "https://www.cnvc.org/store/dementia-together"
date: "2026-09-19T21:46:27+00:00"
language: "en-US"
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#  Dementia Together

#  How to Communicate to Connect

Pati Bielak-Smith

Double Gold Winner of Benjamin Franklin Awards 2021 in the categories of Psychology and Self-help

#  Available Editions - click to purchase on seller site

[ ###  Book (Paperback)

English
PuddleDancer Press

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[ ###  Book (eBook)

English
PuddleDancer Press

 ](https://puddledancer.bookstore.ipgbook.com/dementia-together-products-9781934336182.php?page_id=21)

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 **A practical guide to building and sustaining healthy relationships with someone experiencing symptoms of Alzheimer's or another dementia**

Dementia is an illness that causes no physical pain. But just ask anyone who cares about someone with Alzheimer's or another dementia if their heart isn't aching. The pain in dementia comes from feeling hopeless, alone, or disconnected from loved ones—but a broken relationship can be healed. This book is for family members and friends, for spouses, caregivers, and those who simply care. It outlines a path to a life with dementia that includes more life and less illness.

With imagination, compassion, empathy, and quiet humor, the real-life stories in Dementia Together show you how to build a healthy dementia relationship. Because there are ways to communicate that result in greater capacity to receive as well as to provide both warm connection and practical collaboration. Living with dementia gives everyone an opportunity to grow their hearts bigger. This book shows you how.

![Dementia Together, back cover](https://www.cnvc.org/images/STORE/dementia-together-bc.jpeg)

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