Forget memory creating better lives for people with dementia - Basting, Anne Davis 1965- (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.
Keywords: Dementia; Memory disorders in old age; Dementia -- psychology -- Personal Narratives; Quality of Life -- Personal Narratives