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Author:

Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Dementia.
Memory disorders in old age.
Dementia--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Quality of Life--Personal Narratives.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

0801892503 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801892509 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)246198635

LCCN:

2008037842

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)