The Experience of Alzheimer's Disease Life Through a Tangled Veil

by Sabat, Steven R.

• ISBN13: 9780631216650
• ISBN10: 0631216650
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

At a time when the incidence of Alzheimer's Disease is increasing dramatically, this accessible account revolutionizes our stereotypes of people with Alzheimer's Disease and their care. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals and students, it shows what sufferers can still do despite the loss of certain cognitive abilities, and offers constructive ways to improve the relationship between sufferers and healthy others. Rather than focusing on the etiology or treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, the author helps the reader to understand the psychology behind it. Getting away from a traditional scientific-medical focus on symptoms, the book brings to life the experience of suffering the disease, and the ways in which caregivers can identify and support the intact abilities of those afflicted.

Author Biography

Steven Sabat is Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington area chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease Association, and has co-led support groups for Alzheimer's sufferers.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Ways of Understanding the Effects of the Disease	1	(23)
Language and Communication	24	(67)
Excess Disability: The Potential Impact of Others in the Afflicted Person's Social World	91	(23)
The Maintenance of Self-Esteem	114	(47)
The Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer as a Semiotic Subject	161	(63)
Goals, Intentions, and the Alzheimer's Sufferer's Predicament in Light of Critical Personalism	224	(50)
Selfhood and the Alzheimer's Disease Sufferer	274	(35)
The Tangled Veil is also a Mirror	309	(32)
References	341	(10)
Index	351