I have made a voice recording to introduce my book for it’s release today, and have added the file and the notes here.

Hi this is Kate Swaffer from Adelaide in Australia here, speaking to you on the day my first dementia book comes out. Although I’ve not yet seen a physical copy of it, I obviously know what’s in it, although it was written over a year ago, so perhaps I may even have changed my mind on some things! You might wonder why someone with dementia would even want to write a book, for the most part, our experience and stories have been told by people with out dementia, and so it felt important to speak up. That is also part of the reason I started blogging almost every day over four years ago.

Being diagnosed with dementia at the ripe old age of 49 was more of…