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A personal guide to living with progressive memory loss /

Memory loss can create problems in every aspect of a person's life. The challenge of communicating thoughts and feelings can be made even harder by other people's negative perceptions of dementia. This book provides practical guidance for coping with progressive memory loss, and includes e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burgener, Sandy, 1947-
Otros Autores: Twigg, Prudence, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What progressive memory loss means to you: claiming the diagnosis
  • Maintaining personhood
  • Maintaining important roles in your life
  • Understanding the stigma of progressive memory loss: managing your responses to the behaviors of others
  • Communicating with others
  • Staying active and functional
  • Staying physically healthy: managing physical illnesses, medications, and self-care needs
  • Staying mentally healthy: managing memory loss and impaired thinking
  • Finding hope.