Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People With Dementia

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ISBN: 9780801892509 | 0801892503
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Copyright: 5/1/2009

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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.

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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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