The experience of Alzheimer's disease : life through a tangled web / Steven R. Sabat.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2001.Description: xiii, 361 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780631216667 :
- 9780631216650 (cased) :
- 0631216650 (cased) :
- 362.196831 SAB
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Ways of understanding the effects of the disease -- 2.Language and communication -- 3.Excess disability: the potential impact of others in the afflicted person's social world -- 4.The maintenance of self-esteem -- 5.The Alzheimer's disease sufferer as a semiotic subject -- 6.Goals, intentions, and the Alzheimer's sufferer's predicament in the light of critical personalism -- 7.Selfhood and the Alzheimer's disease sufferer -- 8.The tangled veil is also a mirror.
Rather than focusing on the causes of Alzheimer's Disease or on the behavioural and drug therapies used to treat it, this book helps readers to understand the psychology behind the disease. It looks at the ways in which carers and professionals can support the intact abilities of those afflicted.