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Forgetting Items The Social Experience of Alzheimer's Disease / Baptiste Brossard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brossard, Baptiste, 1985- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Oublier des choses. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Alzheimer's disease--Social aspects.
- Alzheimer's disease.
- Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Psychology.
- HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--Alzheimer's & Dementia.
- HEALTH & FITNESS.
- Caregivers.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Alzheimer's disease--psychology.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English and French.
- Summary:
- Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. Forgetting Items focuses on that social experience of Alzheimer's, delineating the ways disease symptoms manifest and are understood through the interactions between patients and the people around them.
- Contents:
- The organization of repairing exchanges
- Losing credibility
- The deference industry
- Reconstituting people.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translation of: Oublier des choses : ce que vivent les malades d'Alzheimer / Baptiste Brossard. 2017.
- Translated from the French.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253045003
- 0253045002
- 9780253044990
- 0253044995
- OCLC:
- 1098218499
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