Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia

Name: Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia
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ISBN: 9780801892509

ISBN-10: 0801892503

ISBN-13: 9780801892509

Edition: 2009

Authors: Anne Davis Basting

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Memory loss can be one of the most terrifying aspects of a diagnosis of dementia. Yet the fear and dread of losing our memory make the experience of the disease worse than it needs to be, according to cultural critic and playwright Anne Davis Basting. She says, Forget memory. Basting emphasizes the importance of activities that focus on the present to improve the lives of persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.Based on ten years of practice and research in the field, Basting's study includes specific examples of innovative programs that stimulate growth, humor, and emotional connection; translates into accessible language a wide range of provocative academic works on memory;…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.09" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Dementia Is Hard, but It Needn't Be This Hard



Understanding Our Fears About Dementia



What Is (and Isn't) Memory? How a Better Understanding of Memory Might Ease Our Fears about Its Loss



The Danger of Stories: How Stereotypes and the Stigma of Aging and Dementia Can Hurt Us



The Stories We Tell about Dementia in Popular Culture



Memory Loss in the Mainstream: Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia with Science as Hero



Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia: Then versus Now



Not So Tightly Tragic: Stories That Imagine Something More



Not Tragic at All: Stories about Memory Loss without the Old



All of the Above: Denny Crane as the Clown of Dementia



Moving Through Fear: Stories About Dementia that Inspire Hope



StoryCorps and the Memory Loss Initiative



Memory Bridge



To Whom I May Concern



Time Slips Creative Storytelling Project



Songwriting Works



Dance: "Respect" and "Sea of Heartbreak"



The Visual Arts



Duplex Planet: The Art of Conversation



The Photography of Wing Young Huie



Autobiographies by People with Dementia


Conclusion: How and Why to Move through Our Fears about Dementia


Appendixes



Program Description and Contact Information



Recipes from Chapter 1



Images and Stories of Dementia



Timeline of Stories and Events in the Recent History of Dementia


Notes


Index