People with Dementia Speak Out
eBook - ePub

People with Dementia Speak Out

Creative Ways to Achieve Focus and Attention by Building on AD/HD Traits

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

People with Dementia Speak Out

Creative Ways to Achieve Focus and Attention by Building on AD/HD Traits

About this book

In People with Dementia Speak Out, twenty-three people from diverse backgrounds share their experiences of living with dementia.

The contributors are honest about the frustrations and fears they face, but overall there is remarkably little self-pity and a great deal of optimism. The personal accounts demonstrate that with the right support at the right time, and above all with opportunities to continue to contribute to society in a meaningful way, it is possible to live well with dementia. These fascinating stories bring to life the characters behind the collective term 'people with dementia', and show that each person with dementia is a unique individual with their own personality, history, beliefs, cultural affinities and sense of humour, and their own way of adapting to the disabilities and opportunities which this condition confers.

This unique collection of personal testimonies will be reassuring and encouraging for those coming to terms with a diagnosis of dementia, for their families and carers, and is essential reading for health and social care professionals at all levels.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. By The Same Author
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Grandad – can you go and get a new brain?
  11. 2. Are you sure you’ve got Alzheimer’s?
  12. 3. A doctor in search of a diagnosis
  13. 4. I’ll ken it when I see it
  14. 5. Liberation!
  15. 6. I’m gone older. Everything change.
  16. 7. Riding the rollercoaster
  17. 8. I still remember
  18. 9. I never get tired of dancing
  19. 10. They deal with everybody as a individual
  20. 11. One place to another
  21. 12. A double diagnosis
  22. 13. Anybody been kind to me, it stays with me
  23. 14. Love me for who I am
  24. 15. Down with dementia!
  25. 16. Deciding to resist
  26. 17. You keep-a-knockin’ but you can’t come in
  27. 18. The doors of perception
  28. 19. Journey into Alzheimerland
  29. 20. Who’s afraid of the flying bombs?
  30. 21. Time to break the taboo
  31. 22. Something better
  32. 23. A psychiatrist with dementia
  33. What clinicians can learn from people with dementia
  34. Frequently asked questions about dementia
  35. Glossary
  36. Suggestions for further reading and other resources
  37. Helpful organisations
  38. Appendix I: Editing challenges
  39. Appendix II: Narrative based medicine
  40. Appendix III: LGBT people with dementia
  41. Notes
  42. Advertisements