Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for

Memory loss can be one of the most terrifying aspects of a diagnosis of dementia. Yet the fear and dread of losing our memory make the experience of the disease worse than it needs to be. Anne Davis Basting says, Forget memory.

Anne Davis Basting is the director of the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where she is also an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the Peck School of the Arts. Her published works include The Stages of Age and The Arts and Dementia Care: A Resource Guide.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Dementia Is Hard, but It Needn't Be This Hard	p. 1
Understanding Our Fears About Dementia	p. 7
What Is (and Isn't) Memory? How a Better Understanding of Memory Might Ease Our Fears about Its Loss	p. 13
The Danger of Stories: How Stereotypes and the Stigma of Aging and Dementia Can Hurt Us	p. 25
The Stories We Tell about Dementia in Popular Culture	p. 31
Memory Loss in the Mainstream: Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia with Science as Hero	p. 35
Tightly Told Tragedies of Dementia: Then versus Now	p. 40
Not So Tightly Tragic: Stories That Imagine Something More	p. 46
Not Tragic at All: Stories about Memory Loss without the Old	p. 50
All of the Above: Denny Crane as the Clown of Dementia	p. 61
Moving Through Fear: Stories About Dementia that Inspire Hope	p. 67
StoryCorps and the Memory Loss Initiative	p. 71
Memory Bridge	p. 80
To Whom I May Concern	p. 87
Time Slips Creative Storytelling Project	p. 94
Songwriting Works	p. 104
Dance: "Respect" and "Sea of Heartbreak"	p. 111
The Visual Arts	p. 117
Duplex Planet: The Art of Conversation	p. 127
The Photography of Wing Young Huie	p. 134
Autobiographies by People with Dementia	p. 145
Conclusion: How and Why to Move through Our Fears about Dementia	p. 155
Appendixes
Program Description and Contact Information	p. 169
Recipes from Chapter 1	p. 176
Images and Stories of Dementia	p. 178
Timeline of Stories and Events in the Recent History of Dementia	p. 181
Notes	p. 187
Index	p. 201
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Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People With Dementia

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