Forget memory creating better lives for people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting.

Author/creator Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionx, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008037842
ISBN9780801892493 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN080189249X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801892509 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0801892503 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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