Forget memory : creating better lives for people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia.

Memory disorders in old age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

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.

Contents:

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

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

StoryCorps and the memory loss initiative

Memory bridge

To whom I may concern

TimeSlips 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9649-5

OCLC:

551802684