An Angel and Gigi at Memory Support

About the Book

My wife, Yvette, and eleven other sufferers of dementia are in a memory support unit in a care center that is affiliated with a luxurious retirement home called Vi at Palo Alto, California. Gigi, a baby girl, was very often brought into the MS unit to visit her grandmother. Gigi brought joy not only to her but to others in the unit. I imagined that heaven sent an angel down to this unit and that she transformed herself into Gigi to bring some cheerfulness to this unfortunate group. The story is about Gigi’s efforts to do that.

About the Author

The author is a former professor of economics at Stanford University. He and his wife, Yvette, left their campus home in 2005 to live in an elegant large retirement home near one edge of the sprawling Stanford campus. In 2012, Yvette had to be moved to the adjoining care center, owing to her deepening dementia. The author has written four books about her. He is now ninety-five years old.