A personal guide to living with progressive memory loss [[electronic resource] /] / Sandy Burgener and Prudence Twigg

• Autore: Burgener Sandy <1947->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8/3
• Soggetto topico: Memory disorders - Prevention
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: TwiggPrudence <1956->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss serves as a commitment to inclusive education and is a landmark self-help book that focuses on the needs of the person with the diagnosis. It expands what is currently offered to people with memory loss in a sensitive and contemporary way. A must have for every memory clinic and health and human service agency.'. - Linda L. Buettner, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Alzheimer's Association Early Stage Task Force. 'This book empowers people living with dementia, signposting hope, choice and a life to be lived.
• Titolo autorizzato: A personal guide to living with progressive memory loss
• ISBN: 1-281-14335-9; 9786611143350; 1-84642-719-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452174003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II