Lewis M. Cohen

Apr 28, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Lewis M. Cohen |June Garen |Carole Estabrooks |Cindy Thompson

An excerpt from Winter’s End: Dementia and Dying Well. Are there really fates worse than death? Like most people, Dan Winter was uncertain. That is until he visited his father at a memory care unit in Lawrence, Kansas. Dan’s father had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 70. Winton “Wint” Allen Winter Sr. survived for 13 years, spending his final days in 2013 at a specialized chronic care facility. Dan remembers sitting silently beside him.

Apr 4, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Lewis M. Cohen |Carole Estabrooks |Cindy Thompson |Benjamin Brookwell

Last month, the daughters of Wendy Miller, a 68-year-old author of three bestselling books about her experience with dementia, posted online her final words: “In the end, I died simply by deciding not to eat or drink anymore.”Her stark statement reminded me of my interviews with Dan Winter, 62, which had begun nine months before he, too, took his own life.