.Anyone who has felt the pain associated with watching a loved one advance through the stages of dementia will relate to the journey described in My Mother Has the Finest Eyes. Professionals working with individuals, who suffer from loss of mental capacity, as well as caregivers, will find this collection a unique resource.

“As my mother’s disease progressed, I needed to accept changes in our mother-daughter relationship and to understand the emotional and all too harsh transition she was experiencing.

"Mom closed her eyes … so as not to hear and covered her ears … so as not to see, and we pretended not to notice.

She ‘knew’ her memory was slipping and feared what that might indicate.”

The poetry evolved slowly. It was many months before I began to record the difficult journey Charlotte Menter, my mother and the subject of this book, took at the end of her life.

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About the Author: Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert on mentoring and the president of Leadership Development Services and its Center for Mentoring Excellence. She attributes her interest in mentoring to her Menter. In her personal life, Lois gains strength from her roles as wife, mother and grandmother. Lois can be contacted at lzachary@leadservs.com