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.
Description
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.