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My Bird Life

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Features Inez, an artist living in the heart of the city with her best friend Shirley. Inez shares her art with children in the community only to get that love and connection back ten-fold when it matters most. Her story is about moving through the dementia journey with a sense of agency and dignity all while learning to accept some help along the way.

Trigger warning: this story includes discussions of physician-assisted dying.

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https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/livingwelldementiastories/back-matter/instructions-to-download-storybooks/

 

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Stories of Living Well with Dementia Copyright © 2026 by Susan Cox; Heather Neale Furneaux; Hiro Ito; Glo McArter; Alison Phinney; Sam Pineda; Gloria Puurveen; Patricia Whitelock; Matthew Smithdeal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.