The Experience of Alzheimer's Disease - Steven R. Sabat

The Experience of Alzheimer's Disease

Life Through a Tangled Veil

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Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2001
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-21666-7 (ISBN)
53,55 inkl. MwSt
* Helps readers to understand the experience of suffering Alzheimera s Disease. * Incorporates the actual words of afflicted persons. * Focuses on constructive ways of improving the lives of sufferers and their carers. * Examines the intact abilities of Alzheimera s sufferers. .

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.5.2001
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 553 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Altenpflege
ISBN-10 0-631-21666-9 / 0631216669
ISBN-13 978-0-631-21666-7 / 9780631216667
Zustand Neuware
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