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What can dementia teach us about being human?

What can dementia teach us about being human?

In the third episode of Reading Our Times, Nick Spencer speaks to novelist and journalist Nicci Gerrard. 03/11/2020

Approximately 850,000 people in the UK today are living with dementia – and that number is just set to grow. But what actually is dementia? What does it do to us? And what does it say about us, and in particular about our humanity?

Nick Spencer talks to novelist and journalist Nicci Gerrard about her experience of her father’s dementia and the moving and poignant book she wrote about it, ‘What Dementia Teaches Us About Love.’  

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 3 November 2020

Dignity, Humanity, Identity, Reading Our Times

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