Keeping in Touch

Prelims: Foreword, Contents, Acknowledgments, A Note on the Use of Terms and Introduction
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This chapter deals briefly with the highly negative picture of Alzheimer’s disease, and moves on to countering this by explaining the need to keep sight of the person, rather than the disease...
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This chapter identifies the difficulties that Alzheimer’s disease usually causes, as well as covering the various problems in approximate order in which they are likely to occur and details how carers can prevent jumping to conclusions...
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This chapter covers a range of strategies for ensuring that interactions with someone with Alzheimer’s Disease go as well as possible...
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This chapter suggests some things that family members/carers can do together with the person with Alzheimer’s. The emphasis is on simple, everyday activities- none of them requires any special effort or expense...
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This chapter stresses the importance of being a good listener, provides suggestions on how to identify what the other person is actually talking about and gives examples of conversations...
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This chapter deals with the stories that people with Alzheimer’s tell about themselves. It encourages readers to look beyond the fact that they simply aren’t true and start recognising the purposes that they serve for their tellers...
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This chapter considers some of the ways of managing to keep in touch when the carer is living apart from the person who has Alzheimer’s disease. Two typical situations are examined...
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End Matter: A final message from Growler- 'I like being made a fuss of", Notes and Index
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