Thu, Oct 22
|Cowichan Community Centre - Genoa Studio
Dementia Widow - A morning of story, reflection and conversation with author Fay Martin
Author Fay Martin shares her memoir on love, loss and dementia caregiving. A morning of story and conversation. Registration required.
Time & Location
Oct 22, 2026, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Cowichan Community Centre - Genoa Studio, 2687 James St, North Cowichan, BC V9L 2X5, Canada
About the event
🎤 Cowichan Hospice, BC Dementia Care Society & Cowichan Family Caregivers Support Society Present: Dementia Widow
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 🕥 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (Doors open 10:00 AM)
📍 Genoa Studio, Cowichan Community Centre
What does it really take to keep loving someone as dementia changes who they are?
Join us for a morning of story, reflection, and conversation with author Fay Martin, MSW, PhD. Fay spent fifteen years as a wife-turned-caregiver as dementia gradually reshaped her marriage and her life. She writes about that experience with wit, courage, and compassion — about what caregiving asks of us, and what it often hides from view.
Fay's memoir, Dementia Widow: A Memoir about Love, Death, and Survival, traces how a reciprocal marriage can become something harder to name as illness takes hold, and offers something rare: honesty about the grief that begins long before a death, alongsid…