I F’n Hate Dementia

Published January 27, 2026

by Ashley Ivy, MCD, SLP-CCC

Dementia is brutal.
It’s messy, unfair, unpredictable, and emotional as hell.

And yet every day, ordinary people step into the chaos and become caregivers — nurses, protectors, translators of a broken brain, and witnesses to a disease that doesn’t play fair.

I F’n Hate Dementia is the book every family wishes they had from day one:
honest, clinically grounded, practical, and unafraid to say the things everyone else tiptoes around.

Written by a Speech-Language Pathologist who has spent years in the trenches of dementia care, this book breaks down:

• The stages of dementia — what actually happens and why
• What behaviors really mean (and what not to take personally)
• Communication strategies and tools that actually work
• When home care is enough, when memory care is safer, and how to know
• The grief, the humor, the guilt, and the humanity inside the disease

This isn’t a gentle guide.
It’s a truthful one — delivered with compassion, dark humor, and a healthy dose of unfiltered reality.

If you love someone with dementia — or you’re caring for someone right now — this book is your roadmap, your lifeline, and your reminder that you’re not crazy and you’re not alone.

Because dementia is hell.
But you?
You’re extraordinary.