Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient
Subtitle: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521023184
Subjects: Geriatric medicine; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Medical / Nursing; Gerontology; Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Language--Case; Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Language--Case studies; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Linguistics; Medical / Geriatrics; Alzheimer's disease; Case studies; Language attrition; Patients
First sentence: Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease which has major social consequences for the individual who has the disease as well as for those people who are emotionally and/or physically close to this individual.