The Experience of Alzheimers Disease: Life Through a Tangled Veil

At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer′s Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionizes our stereotypes of people with Alzheimer′s Disease and their care. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals and students, it shows what sufferers can still do despite the loss of certain cognitive abilities, and offers constructive ways to improve the relationship between sufferers and healthy others.
Rather than focusing on the etiology or treatment of Alzheimer′s Disease, the author helps the reader to understand the psychology behind it. Getting away from a traditional scientific–medical focus on symptoms, the book brings to life the experience of suffering the disease, and the ways in which caregivers can identify and support the intact abilities of those afflicted.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowlegments.
Chapter 1. Ways of Understanding the Effects of the Disease.
Chapter 2. Language and Communication.
Chapter 3. Excess Disability: The Potential Impact of Others in the Afflicted Person′s Social World.
Chapter 4. The Maintenance of Self–Esteem.
Chapter 5. The Alzheimer′s Disease Sufferer as a Semiotic Subject.
Chapter 6. Goals, Intentions, and the Alzheimer′s Disease Sufferer′s Predicament in Light of Critical Personalism.
Chapter 7. Selfhood and the Alzheimer′s Disease Sufferer.
Chapter 8. The Tangled Veil is Also a Mirror.
References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Steven Sabat is Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington area chapter of the Alzheimer′s Disease Association, and has co–led support groups for Alzheimer′s sufferers.

Okładka tylna:
At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer′s Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionizes our ste reotypes of people with Alzheimer′s Disease and their care. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals and students, it shows what sufferers can still do despite the loss of certain cognitive abilities, and offers constructive ways to improve the relationship between sufferers and healthy others.
Rather than focusing on the etiology or treatment of Alzheimer′s Disease, the author helps the reader to understand the psychology behind it. Getting away from a traditional scientific–medical focus on symptoms, the book brings to life the experience of suffering the disease, and the ways in which caregivers can identify and support the intact abilities of those afflicted.