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Forget memory : creating better lives for people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting.

by Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Memory disorders in old age.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008037842.html

9780801892493 (hardcover : alk. paper)

080189249X (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780801892509 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

0801892503 (pbk. : alk. paper)

x, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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.

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