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The experience of Alzheimer's disease : life through a tangled veil

By:

Sabat, Steven R

Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2001Description: xiii, 361 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0631216650
0631216669

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Contents:

Ch. 1. Ways of Understanding the Effects of the Disease -- Ch. 2. Language and Communication -- Ch. 3. Excess Disability: The Potential Impact of Others in the Afflicted Person's Social World -- Ch. 4. The Maintenance of Self-Esteem -- Ch. 5. The Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer as a Semiotic Subject -- Ch. 6. Goals, Intentions, and the Alzheimer's Sufferer's Predicament in Light of Critical Personalism -- Ch. 7. Selfhood and the Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer -- Ch. 8. The Tangled Veil is also a Mirror.

Summary: At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer's Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionises our stereotypes of Alzheimer's patients and their care. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals and students, it shows what sufferers can still do despite the loss of certain cognitive abilities, and offers constructive ways to improve the relationship between sufferers and healthy others. Rather than focusing on the aetiology or treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the author helps the reader to understand the psychology behind it. Getting away from a traditional scientific-medical focus on symptoms, the book brings to life the experience of suffering the disease, and the ways in which caregivers can identify and support the intact abilities of those afflicted.

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At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer's Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionises our stereotypes of Alzheimer's patients and their care. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals and students, it shows what sufferers can still do despite the loss of certain cognitive abilities, and offers constructive ways to improve the relationship between sufferers and healthy others.
Rather than focusing on the aetiology or treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the author helps the reader to understand the psychology behind it. Getting away from a traditional scientific-medical focus on symptoms, the book brings to life the experience of suffering the disease, and the ways in which caregivers can identify and support the intact abilities of those afflicted.

User comment on 02/12/2022

It was a very helpful read, full of humane ideas in action, as they were not theoretical from the many interview transcripts he records in the book (Maggie Bruce-Konuah)

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