Preface
Chapter 1: Dementia
Chapter 2: Alzheimer's Disease: Biological Aspects
Chapter 3: Alzheimer's Disease: The Subjective Experience
Chapter 4: People with Alzheimer's Disease and the Social World
Chapter 5: Resilience, Selfhood, and Creativity
Chapter 6: Types of Care and the Role of Spirituality
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Steven R. Sabat, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgetown
University, is a three-time recipient of the Edward B. Bunn Award
for excellence in teaching and a recipient of the College Dean's
Award and College Academic Council Award for excellence in teaching
at Georgetown. His research has focused on the remaining cognitive
and social strengths, and the subjective experience of people with
Alzheimer's disease. He is the author of The
Experience of Alzheimer's Disease: Life Through a Tangled Veil
(Blackwell Publishers, 2001) and co-editor of Dementia: Mind,
Meaning, and the Person (Oxford University Press, 2006).
"...accessible to a general audience, while also serving as useful
reference and reminder for students and established dementia
professionals... each chapter opens with important background
content, and Dr. Sabat's writing flows smoothly and makes the
reader feel that they are having a one-on-one conversation with the
respected dementia scholar...Students and established practitioners
will find this book an important reference resource, whether
their
background is specific to dementia or more broadly encompasses
aging, family care, or medical and social care...many individuals
with dementia, family members, practitioners, and the general
public will benefit
from access to this book. Dr. Sabat is applauded for addressing
difficult questions with detailed but easy to follow answers... His
use of clinical experience, real-life scenarios, and research
citations is a model for future books in this style and addressing
these topics." -- Dementia
"Professor Sabat's international renown as an expert in the field
stems from his advocacy of a humane approach to people with
different types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. In this
new book his views are presented with typical clarity. What he says
can only be helpful both to people living with dementia and to
their friends, families and professional carers. It's vintage
Sabat: always look to the social environment; what's going on in
the brain is
never the end of the story! And he tells the story with remarkable
sympathy and expertise."--Julian C Hughes, RICE Professor of Old
Age Psychiatry, University of Bristol
"Steve Sabat's widely recognized and resonant voice has infused a
transformative and compelling humanity into our personal and
cultural narratives about people with dementia across the globe.
His thought-provoking, compassionate, and instructive content
throughout this new book is grounded in his core and profoundly
important message--to never give up on the person by giving in to
the diagnosis." - Lisa Snyder, MSW, LCSW , Shiley-Marcos
Alzheimer's Disease
Research Center, University of California, San Diego
"It has helped me become more hopeful for a better future for all
people with dementia, and I believe this book will help others find
ways to live with dementia, as it informs those without dementia
how to support us to do that. There is a gross and systemic
underestimation of the capacity of people with dementia, even in
the later stages of the disease. This book focuses on our capacity,
and what we can still do to find meaning and purpose in our
lives."- Kate
Swaffer, Chair, CEO, & Co-founder, Dementia Alliance
International
"Providing an accessible, question-and-answer format primer on what
touches so many lives, and yet so few of us understand, Alzheimer's
Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know contributes what
is urgently missing from public knowledge: unsparing investigation
of their causes and manifestations, and focus on the strengths
possess by people diagnosed...Sabat strives to inform as well as to
remind readers of the respect and empathy owed to those
diagnosed and living with dementia." - Care and Nursing
Magazine
"There is much to satisfy students and professionals ... Family
carers and those living with dementia will find much to identify in
this book to help them make sense of what is happening to them and
how to cope better ... the wisdom [this book] contains will be
universally appealing to those who are serious about understanding
how dementia affects the human condition and what we can all do to
improve the quality of life of us all." - Journal of Dementia
Care, Professor Dawn Brooker
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