Winter’s End: Dementia and Dying Well
by Lewis Cohen
Lewis Cohen follows the last nine months of Dan Winter, who has early-onset Alzheimer's disease and decides to end his life while he still has the capacity to choose.
About the book.
Professor Cohen is a palliative medicine researcher and professor emeritus of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. In Winter’s End, he chronicles the final nine months of the life of Dan Winter, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and who decides to end his own life while he still has capacity. The book is an interesting hybrid of non-fiction narrative, clinical data and contemporary experience about the devastating consequences of dementia. It reads like a memoir, illuminating and engaging, informed by the author’s online conversations with Dan and his husband.
