Forget memory
Subtitle: creating better lives for people with dementia
By: Anne Davis Basting.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780801892493; 9780801892509
Subjects: Dementia; Memory disorders in old age; Dementia -- psychology -- Personal Narratives; Quality of Life -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Personal Narratives.
Description: Resource added for the Gerontology program 105441.

Resource added for the Nursing-Associate Degree 105431, Practical Nursing 315431, and Nursing Assistant 305431 programs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is (and isn't) memory? : how a better understanding of memory might ease our fears about its loss; title: The danger of stories : how stigma and stereotypes of aging and dementia can hurt us; title: Memory loss in the mainstream : tightly told tragedies of dementia with science as hero; title: Tightly told tragedies of dementia : then versus now; title: Not so tightly tragic : stories that imagine something more; title: Not tragic at all : stories about memory loss without the old; title: All of the above : Denny Crane as the clown of dementia; title: Storycorps and the memory loss initiative; title: Memory bridge; title: To whom I may concern; title: TimeSlips creative storytelling project; title: Songwriting works; title: Dance : "Respect" and "Sea of heartbreak"; title: Visual art; title: Duplex planet : the art of conversation; title: The photography of Wing Young Huie; title: Autobiographies by people with dementia.