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How to document someone vanishing while they're still alive

My mother's Alzheimer's is stealing her in pieces and I'm drawing her hands every week but I can see in the sketches that she's disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Anticipatory grief creates art that witnesses its own futility.

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“Where Are You with Grief and creativity — making from loss?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.