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Forget Memory : Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801896491
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forget MemoryDDC classification:
  • 616.8/3
LOC classification:
  • RC521 .B376 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dementia Is Hard, but It Needn't Be This Hard -- PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING OUR FEARS ABOUT DEMENTIA -- 1 What Is (and Isn't) Memory? How a Better Understanding of Memory Might Ease Our Fears about Its Loss -- 2 The Danger of Stories: How Stereotypes and the Stigma of Aging and Dementia Can Hurt Us -- PART TWO: THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT DEMENTIA IN POPULAR CULTURE -- 3 Memory Loss in the Mainstream: Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia with Science as Hero -- 4 Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia: Then versus Now -- 5 Not So Tightly Tragic: Stories That Imagine Something More -- 6 Not Tragic at All: Stories about Memory Loss without the Old -- 7 All of the Above: Denny Crane as the Clown of Dementia -- PART THREE: MOVING THROUGH FEAR: STORIES ABOUT DEMENTIA THAT INSPIRE HOPE -- 8 StoryCorps and the Memory Loss Initiative -- 9 Memory Bridge -- 10 To Whom I May Concern -- 11 TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project -- 12 Songwriting Works -- 13 Dance: "Respect" and "Sea of Heartbreak" -- 14 The Visual Arts -- 15 Duplex Planet: The Art of Conversation -- 16 The Photography of Wing Young Huie -- 17 Autobiographies by People with Dementia -- CONCLUSION: HOW AND WHY TO MOVE THROUGH OUR FEARS ABOUT DEMENTIA -- Appendixes -- A: Program Description and Contact Information -- B: Recipes from Chapter 1 -- C: Images and Stories of Dementia -- D: Timeline of Stories and Events in the Recent History of Dementia -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Bold, optimistic, and innovative, Basting's cultural critique of dementia care offers a vision for how we can change the way we think about and care for people with memory loss.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dementia Is Hard, but It Needn't Be This Hard -- PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING OUR FEARS ABOUT DEMENTIA -- 1 What Is (and Isn't) Memory? How a Better Understanding of Memory Might Ease Our Fears about Its Loss -- 2 The Danger of Stories: How Stereotypes and the Stigma of Aging and Dementia Can Hurt Us -- PART TWO: THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT DEMENTIA IN POPULAR CULTURE -- 3 Memory Loss in the Mainstream: Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia with Science as Hero -- 4 Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia: Then versus Now -- 5 Not So Tightly Tragic: Stories That Imagine Something More -- 6 Not Tragic at All: Stories about Memory Loss without the Old -- 7 All of the Above: Denny Crane as the Clown of Dementia -- PART THREE: MOVING THROUGH FEAR: STORIES ABOUT DEMENTIA THAT INSPIRE HOPE -- 8 StoryCorps and the Memory Loss Initiative -- 9 Memory Bridge -- 10 To Whom I May Concern -- 11 TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project -- 12 Songwriting Works -- 13 Dance: "Respect" and "Sea of Heartbreak" -- 14 The Visual Arts -- 15 Duplex Planet: The Art of Conversation -- 16 The Photography of Wing Young Huie -- 17 Autobiographies by People with Dementia -- CONCLUSION: HOW AND WHY TO MOVE THROUGH OUR FEARS ABOUT DEMENTIA -- Appendixes -- A: Program Description and Contact Information -- B: Recipes from Chapter 1 -- C: Images and Stories of Dementia -- D: Timeline of Stories and Events in the Recent History of Dementia -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Bold, optimistic, and innovative, Basting's cultural critique of dementia care offers a vision for how we can change the way we think about and care for people with memory loss.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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