Travelers to unimaginable lands stories of dementia, the caregiver, and the human brain
"After getting her master's in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper took a leave of absence from school and began to look after a Holocaust survivor with middle-stage Alzheimer's. For a year, she lived with the emotional strain of caregiving, learning at firsthand how disorienting and painful it can be...
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New York :
Random House,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Borges in the Bronx : Why we can't remember that dementia patients forget
- The weak child : Why it's so hard to change our responses
- Optics of dementia : why we can't see dementia even as it stares us in the face
- Chekhov & the left brain interpreter : why we believe the person we used to know is still there
- The Insistent, persistent CEO : why we feel patients are still capable of self-awareness
- When every day is Sunday : why we dispute a patient's reality
- My dinner with Stefan Zweig : why we take patients' words and actions so personally
- The mastermind: Why we continue to rely on reason
- Ah Humanity : why we attribute intention to patients' behaviors
- When the Right thing is the wrong thing : why it's so hard to let go of blame
- Word girl : why we persist.
