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Book SynopsisFor caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. How do we approach a deeply forgetful loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware ofand find renewed hope insurprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline. In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of hypercognitive values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional p
Trade ReviewEssential reading for all caregivers, family, and healthcare providers for deeply forgetful people.
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Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface
Chapter One. In Praise of Caregivers and Dignity
Chapter Two. Hope in Caring for Deeply Forgetful People: Why It Matters and Where to Find It
Chapter Three. Answers to Sixteen Questions Caregivers Ask from Diagnosis to Dying
Chapter Four. The Seventeenth Question: Preemptive Physician-Assisted Suicide (PPAS) for Alzheimer's Disease: A Caution
Chapter Five. A Caregiver's Ethical Purpose: Preserving Dignity, Ten Manifestations of Care, and Respect for the Whole Story of a Life
Chapter Six. Respecting the Preferences of Deeply Forgetful People in Health Care and Research
Chapter Seven. "Is Grandma Still There?" The Mystery of Continuing Self-Identity
An Epilogue. North Wind
A Caregiver Resilience Program: Meeting Alzheimer's: Learning to Communicate and Connect
by Rev. Dr. Jade C. Angelica
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Acknowledgments
Index
