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Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss

  • ISBN-13: 9781843108634
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Prudence Twigg, By Sandy Burgener
  • Price: AUD $43.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2007
  • Format: Paperback (233.00mm X 157.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 264g
  • Categories: Care of the elderly [JKSG]
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Prudence Twigg, Ph.D., is a Visiting Lecturer at Indiana University School of Nursing.
Introduction.; 1. What Progressive Memory Loss Means to You: Claiming the Diagnosis.; 2. Maintaining Personhood.; 3. Maintaining Important Roles in Your Life.; 4. Understanding the Stigma of Progressive Memory Loss: Managing Your Responses to the Behaviors of Others.; 5. Communicating with Others.; 6. Staying Active and Functional.; 7. Staying Physically Healthy: Managing Physical Illnesses, Medications, and Self-Care Needs.; 8. Staying Mentally Healthy: Managing Memory Loss and Impaired Thinking.; 9. Finding Hope. References. Subject index. Author index.

This book is rare, if not unique, in that its stated audience is people diagnosed with diseases that caure progressive memory loss and difficulty with thinking.

In the developing culture of wellbeing and recovery for older with mental health needs this text clearly gives examples of how people with progressive memory loss can take control (with or without the assistance of those around them) to shape their own lives. For this alone I would recommend this book.

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