Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End Audiobook (Free)
- Kimberly Farr, Tia Powell
- 11 h 10 min
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-04-02
Summary:
The cultural and health background of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease simply by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to carefully turn our focus from cure to care.
Despite being truly a doctor and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn’t ready to address the difficulties she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were identified as having dementia–not to mention confronting the hard truth that her very own odds aren’t great. In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 each day; by enough time a person reaches 85 approximately Dementia Reimagined: Building a Existence of Pleasure and Dignity from Beginning to End , their likelihood of having dementia strategy 50 percent. And the simple truth is, there is absolutely no remedy, and none just around the corner, regardless of the perpetual guarantees by pharmaceutical businesses they are only one more expensive study from a pill. Dr. Powell’s goal is to move the conversation away from an exclusive focus on remedy to an authentic gratitude of care–what we can do for those who have dementia, and how exactly to keep life meaningful as well as joyful.
Reimagining Dementia is a moving combination of drugs and memoir, peeling back the untold history of dementia, from your tale of Solomon Fuller, a dark doctor whose research at the switch from the twentieth hundred years anticipated important aspects of what we know about dementia today, from what continues to be gained and lost using the recent bonanza of financing for Alzheimer’s at the trouble of other styles of the disease. In demystifying dementia, Dr. Powell assists us understand it with clearer eyes, from the point of look at of both physician and caregiver. Eventually, she wants people to learn that dementia isn’t only about loss–it’s also about the preservation of dignity and hope.
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