Dignity for deeply forgetful people : how caregivers can meet the challenges of Alzheimer's disease
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
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xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8311 POST 2022
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
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A book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. How do we approach a "deeply forgetful" loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware of—and find renewed hope in—surprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of "hypercognitive" values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, music, and a self that is not "gone" but "differently abled.--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Post, S. G. (2022). Dignity for deeply forgetful people: how caregivers can meet the challenges of Alzheimer's disease . Johns Hopkins University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Post, Stephen Garrard, 1951-. 2022. Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Post, Stephen Garrard, 1951-. Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Post, Stephen Garrard. Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

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