The Last Granny: Journal of an Alzheimer's Daughter

The Last Granny: Journal of an Alzheimer's Daughter is a celebration of the life of the author’s mother. While Jokinen was truly saddened by her mother’s death, the author was encouraged by the new beginning for her mother, the return to personal dignity and the removal of all pain. The author’s mother was Amazing Grace, world traveler, and a Simon Legree educator, always seeming surer of herself than was supported by her inner confidence. The author thanks her mother for her joyous, contagious laugh, for her elegant sense of style, for being wherever Jokinen was for all of her birthdays and for her mother’s great ideas for interesting weekend and summer activities.