Broken fragments
Subtitle: Jewish experiences of Alzheimer's disease through diagnosis, treatment, and moving on
By: edited by Douglas J. Kohn
Publisher: URJ Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780807411988
Subjects: Caring; Aging; Mental health; Judaism; Religious aspects; Patients; Religious life; Spiritual life; Memory; Medicine; Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Caregivers; Aging parents; Jewish ethics; Biography; Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Normal forgetfulness, or . . . / Beverly Engel and Cathy Michaelson Lieblich; title: Recognizing changes / Jonathan V. Plaut; title: Remembering grandma Esther : community as support and validation / Paul J. Kipnes; title: Early responses : talking to dementia with its own, new language / Bonnie Ann Steinberg; title: Questions of legal competency / Elliot N. Dorff; title: Shining through : being a daughter when mom is changing / Ellen Dreskin; title: Dementia : seen by a neurologist / Rhonna Shatz; title: Doorways of hope : adapting to Alzheimer's / Sheldon Marder; title: Let there be light : creative adaptations to Alzheimer's / Mina Friedler; title: From frustration to compassion : a neurologist's perspective / Ronald M. Andiman; title: Alzheimer's and the soul : a new perspective / Michele Brand Medwin; title: Memory is incumbent upon the Jew : but what about my mother's dementia? / Elyse Goldstein; title: A home? : care at home or care in / Toby F. Laping; title: He's still my father / Mike Comins; title: The uncertain path : emerging issues for the caregiver / Richard F. Address; title: The not-person / Douglas J. Kohn; title: Spiraling down and up the staircase : the descent of dementia and the ascent that follows / Andrew R. Sklarz; title: The whole world is full of God's glory / Cary Kozberg.