Forget memory creating better lives for people with dementia /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363249 |
Table of Contents:
- What is (and isn't) memory? : how a better understanding of memory might ease our fears about its loss
- The danger of stories : how stereotypes and the stigma of aging and dementia can hurt us
- Memory loss in the mainstream : tightly told tragedies of dementia with science as hero
- Tightly told tragedies of dementia : then versus now
- Not so tightly tragic : stories that imagine something more
- Not tragic at all : stories about memory loss without the old
- All of the above : Denny Crane as the clown of dementia
- StoryCorps and the memory loss initiative
- Memory bridge
- To whom I may concern
- TimeSlips creative storytelling project
- Songwriting works
- Dance : "Respect" and "Sea of heartbreak"
- The visual arts
- Duplex planet : the art of conversation
- The photography of Wing Young Huie
- Autobiographies by people with dementia.