Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End

The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer''s disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. A moving combination of medicine and memoir, peeling back the untold history of dementia, from the story of Solomon Fuller, a black doctor whose research at the turn of the twentieth century anticipated important aspects of what we know about dementia today, to what has been gained and lost with the recent bonanza of funding for Alzheimer''s at the expense of other forms of the disease. In demystifying dementia, Dr. Powell helps us understand it with clearer eyes, from the point of view of both physician and caregiver. Ultimately, she wants us all to know that dementia is not only about loss - it''s also about the preservation of dignity and hope.

• | Author: Tia Powell
• | Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2019
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780735210905
• | ISBN-10: 073521090X