Experience of Alzheimer's Disease Life Through a Tangled Veil

Name: Experience of Alzheimer's Disease Life Through a Tangled Veil
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ISBN: 9780631216667

ISBN-10: 0631216669

ISBN-13: 9780631216667

Edition: 2001

Authors: Steven R. Sabat

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At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer's Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionizes our stereotypes of people with Alzheimer's Disease and their care. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals and students, it shows what sufferers can still do despite the loss of certain cognitive abilities, and offers constructive ways to improve the relationship between sufferers and healthy others. Rather than focusing on the etiology or treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, the author helps the reader to understand the psychology behind it. Getting away from a traditional scientific-medical focus on symptoms, the book brings to life the experience of…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Ways of Understanding the Effects of the Disease



Language and Communication



Excess Disability: The Potential Impact of Others in the Afflicted Person's Social World



The Maintenance of Self-Esteem



The Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer as a Semiotic Subject



Goals, Intentions, and the Alzheimer's Sufferer's Predicament in Light of Critical Personalism



Selfhood and the Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer



The Tangled Veil is also a Mirror


References


Index