Author:
Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Physical Description205 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:What is (and isn't) memory? : how a better understanding of memory might ease our fears about its loss -- The danger of stories : how stigma and stereotypes of aging and dementia can hurt us -- Memory loss in the mainstream : tightly told tragedies of dementia with science as hero -- Tightly told tragedies of dementia : then versus now -- Not so tightly tragic : stories that imagine something more -- Not tragic at all : stories about memory loss without the old -- All of the above : Denny Crane as the clown of dementia -- Storycorps and the memory loss initiative -- Memory bridge -- To whom I may concern -- TimeSlips creative storytelling project -- Songwriting works -- Dance : "Respect" and "Sea of heartbreak" -- Visual art -- Duplex planet : the art of conversation -- The photography of Wing Young Huie -- Autobiographies by people with dementia.
