Download PDF Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia 9780801892509 Medicine Health Science Books

Product details Paperback 224 pages Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (July 1, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 0801892503

Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia 9780801892509 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews

• A classic book that has effectively shifted attention away from memory as the sole focus of dementia care to a much more broad-based understanding of how to engage with people with dementia using creative approaches that tap into their present lives. A must read for those people with dementia, who have a friend or family member with dementia and by healthcare professionals.
• The author has described the illness, Alzheimer.s disease, and also created a list of the wealth of services, etc that can benefit the families and the Alzheimer patient.
• "Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia" by Anne Davis Basting. Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia This book provides excellent information on wonderful programs that are being used successfully in creating better lives for people with Alheimer's and other forms of dementia. As this book documents, these programs produce positive results in the lives of the person with dementia, and the family. These programs give families a deeper level of appreciation and understanding of the person with dementia, and provide families with tools that enhance the life of the person with dementia so that the remaining years may be as meaningful and full of life as possible. It is well written and well documented. I was introduced to this book by a teacher who required it for our text in my college Gerontology class on Alzheimer's and Other Forms of Dementia. I plan to use these various programs when I have an opportunity to do so in working with those suffering with dementia. I highly recommend this small, easy to read book for those who are truly looking to understand people with dementia, how to reach them, and how to help families and caregivers successfully interact with people with dementia. The wonderful programs discussed in this book, Naomi Feil's Validation Therapy, the Green House Model, and the Eden Alternative Model, all offer positive, productive tools that may be implemented to create better lives for people with dementia and their families.
• "Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia" by Anne Davis Basting. Forget Memory Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia This book provides excellent information on wonderful programs that are being used successfully in creating better lives for people with Alheimer's and other forms of dementia. As this book documents, these programs produce positive results in the lives of the person with dementia, and the family. The creative and meaningful programs give families a deeper level of appreciation and understanding of the person with dementia, and provide families with tools that enhance the life of the person with dementia so that the remaining years may be as meaningful and full of life as possible. It is well written and well documented. I was introduced to this book by a teacher who required it for our text in my college Gerontology class on Alzheimer's and Other Forms of Dementia. I plan to use these various programs when I have an opportunity to do so in working with those suffering with dementia. I highly recommend this small, easy to read book for those who are truly looking to understand people with dementia, how to reach them, and how to help families and caregivers successfully interact with people with dementia. The wonderful programs discussed in this book, Naomi Feil's Validation Therapy, the Green House Model, and the Eden Alternative Model, all offer positive, productive tools that may be implemented to create better lives for people with dementia and their families.
• I read this book out of professional interest in using art to better the lives of people with dementia. At the outset, Basting takes issue with the Alzheimer's Association pervasive message that dementia is a tragedy characterized by unspeakable loss, and that the only salvation is to find a cure. (I work for the Alzheimer's Association, so her position instantly piqued my curiosity!) She then takes us through a critique of memory and memory loss, using examples from literature and pop culture. In part three, she describes different community art projects in which writers and artists work with people with dementia. There is even an appendix listing the different programs.
  
  Alzheimer's is a horrible disease and the only one of the "top ten" for which there is no cure, treatment or way to prevent. Basting's suggestion that we try to take the fear out of a diagnosis and direct more energy toward creating positive social and creative experiences for PWD is very helpful. Especially if Alzheimer's becomes the epidemic it is projected to be (unless there is a cure) then all of us who work with PWD should be thinking of ways to make the post-diagnosis years (an average of eight) as pleasurable, meaningful and fear-free as we can. This book points the way to new possibilities.
• I have just finished the book and was inspired by the rich insight, eloquent writing, and beauty in it. It helped me see memory and dementia through a new lens.
• This book is an inspiration. It is beautifully and thoughtfully written, with such hope. You develop real faith in the resilience and creativity hidden within those with dementia.