With You in the Moment
With You in the Moment is a heartfelt memoir about one family’s experience of dementia, told with warmth, honesty, and a belief in the power of presence. Rather than focusing on loss, it offers a hopeful perspective—showing how creativity, humour, and practical care can help preserve dignity and connection.
Through everyday experiences—doctor’s visits, changing routines, unexpected crises, and quiet victories—the family learns to adapt with compassion, focusing on strengths rather than limitations. The result is a deeply human story that embraces the messiness and beauty of living well, even in the face of a difficult diagnosis.
This is not a clinical guide, but a personal reflection on mindset, resilience, and the enduring bonds that hold us together. With You in the Moment offers gentle insight and inspiration for anyone living with dementia or supporting someone they love, reminding us that even in uncertainty, there is room for joy.
Author Bio
Marcus Batterbury’s career has followed a meandering and unpredictable path. Amongst other things he has worked as a bike messenger, a fitness instructor, cleaner, waiter, teacher and trainer. He has also travelled the UK by way of a green and beautiful campervan, and the world by way of trains, planes and bicycles.
Marcus lives on the south coast of England with his partner Simon and his dog Milo.