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Thinking about Dementia

Author : Annette Leibing
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813538033
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Dementia written by Annette Leibing and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society's attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related diagnoses and the nature of treatment. Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this unique volume approaches the subject from a variety of angles, exploring the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on solid ethnographic fieldwork, the essays employ a cross-cultural perspective and focus on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show the extent to which the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also very much culturally constructed. Second, detailed ethnographic reports raise questions about the behavioral criteria used by health care professionals and laymen for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings.; Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals.

Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America

Author : Jesse F. Ballenger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801888883
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America written by Jesse F. Ballenger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Jesse F. Ballenger traces the emergence of senility as a cultural category from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, a period in which Alzheimer's disease became increasingly associated with the terrifying prospect of losing one's self. Changes in American society and culture have complicated the notion of selfhood, Ballenger finds. No longer an ascribed status, selfhood must be carefully and willfully constructed. Thus, losing one's ability to sustain a coherent self-narrative is considered one of life's most dreadful losses. As Ballenger writes "senility haunts the landscape of the self-made man." Stereotypes of senility and Alzheimer's disease are related to anxiety about the coherence, stability, and agency of the self—stereotypes that are transforming perceptions of old age in modern America. Drawing on scientific, clinical, policy, and popular discourses on aging and dementia, Ballenger explores early twentieth-century concepts of aging and the emergence of gerontology to understand and distinguish normal aging from disease. In addition, he examines American psychiatry's approaches to the treatment of senility and scientific attempts to understand the brain pathology of dementia. Ballenger's work contributes to our understanding of the emergence and significance of dementia as a major health issue.

The Senility of Vladimir P.

Author : Michael Honig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771969
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Senility of Vladimir P. written by Michael Honig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set twenty-odd years from now, it opens on Patient Number One—Vladimir Putin, largely forgotten in his presidential dacha, serviced by a small coterie of house staff, drifting in and out of his memories of the past. His nurse, charged with the twenty-four-hour care of his patient, is blissfully unaware that his colleagues are using their various positions to skim money, in extraordinarily creative ways, from the top of their employer’s seemingly inexhaustible riches.But when a family tragedy means that the nurse suddenly needs to find a fantastical sum of money fast, the dacha’s chef lets him in on the secret world of backhanders and bribes going on around him, and opens his eyes to a brewing war between the staff and the new housekeeper, the ruthless new sheriff in town.A brilliantly cast modern-day Animal Farm, The Senility of Vladimir P. is a coruscating political fable that shows, through an honest man slipping his ethical moorings, how Putin has not only bankrupted his nation economically, but has also diminished it culturally and spiritually.

Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America

Author : Jesse F. Ballenger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882760
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America written by Jesse F. Ballenger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballenger's work contributes to our understanding of the emergence and significance of dementia as a major health issue.

Geriatric Rehabilitation Manual

Author : Timothy L. Kauffman
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0443102333
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Geriatric Rehabilitation Manual written by Timothy L. Kauffman and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual gives step-by-step guidance on the evaluation and treatment of geriatric diseases and disorders. It covers incidence of disorders, diagnostic tests, associated diagnoses, clinical implications for mobility, and rehabilitation techniques. It offers a broad overview of the effects of aging on all body systems. Special geriatric considerations for laboratory assessment, thermoregulations, and pharmacology are also discussed. This manual is a resource for all training clinicians in geriatric care and is a quick-reference guide for students and practitioners in this field.

Sense and Senility: The Neuropathology of the Aged Human Brain

Author : David M.A. Mann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461560012
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Sense and Senility: The Neuropathology of the Aged Human Brain written by David M.A. Mann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: nly two things are certain in life, one is that all of us will inevita Obly grow older, the other is that at some point during or at the end of this process we shall die. Inherent to the passage of time is a deterio ration in the structural and functional integrity of our bodies, this pro gressing to such an extent that one or more organ systems will eventu ally begin to fail with the continued health and well-being of the individual coming under threat. Age-associated deficiencies in the musculo-skeletal, cardiovascular, or endocrine systems producing arthri tis, hypertension, stroke or diabetes are all too apparent in our elderly population yet internally caused failures in the function of the nervous system provide the common, and mostly intractable, problems of memory and intellect or locomotion that face and frustrate clinicians. Perhaps the most important factor which can decide the outcome of research studies professing to examine the effects of the passage of time (i. e. the 'process of aging') on the function of the nervous system, or indeed any other organ system, is the selection of appropriate or repre sentative subjects for investigation. The heart of this problem lies in defining what might be considered as 'normal' aging as distinct from age-associated disease; setting the 'goal posts of normality' continues to 1 be a matter of considerable debate.

The Myth of Senility

Author : Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Senility written by Robin Marantz Henig and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizes that senility is often socially induced, resulting from a lack of prestige, economic independence, and physical well-being, and looks at alternatives to institutionalization.

Senility

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senility written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Senility

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Senility written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex & Senility

Author : John J. Heckler
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450205615
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sex & Senility written by John J. Heckler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manny Moskowitz was born poor, very poor, and smart, very smart on the lower east Side of New York City. Now he resides at the Buckingham a very affluent senior residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Actually he funded the Buckingham project creating a happy home for his pals and other assorted characters. The book is pure fun, sprinkled with wild sex among boys and girls who have never grown up Manny is the resident expert on Cialis, Viagra , Levitra and whatever else helps when the occasion arises. Meet Manny, enjoy his dysfunctional family and bizarre pals. A slice of life sprinkled with a little Yiddish , sex and a lot of outrageous behavior.

The End of Senility

Author : Arthur S. Freese
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780877951735
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The End of Senility written by Arthur S. Freese and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1978 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New Look at Senility

Author : Albert A. Fisk
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A New Look at Senility written by Albert A. Fisk and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1981 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Aging in India

Author : Lawrence Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520925328
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book No Aging in India written by Lawrence Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility—encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties—combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies—the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.

The Truth about Senility, and how to Avoid it

Author : Lawrence Galton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Senility, and how to Avoid it written by Lawrence Galton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Risk Factors for Senility

Author : Henry Rothschild
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Risk Factors for Senility written by Henry Rothschild and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting data not previously brought together in a single volume, this book gives the latest scientific information on the many different factors implicated in premature ageing. After surveying the basic biological, neurobehavioural, and physical aspects of ageing, the book considers risk factors for senile dementia and other neurological disorders, with a chapter devoted to mental stimulation and deprivation. It then reviews what is known about the role of nutrition, physical activity, metabolic and endocrine function, drug use, and life-style in the ageing process. By delineating associations among these areas, the authors provide further insight into their influence. Where data are available, they focus on practical strategies for risk assessment, risk-factor reduction, and disease prevention. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributors representing gerontology, biology, neurology, physiology, epidemiology, psychiatry, medical sociology, and many other areas. This timely volume will be of value to an equally wide audience.

Senile Changes in Leaves of Vitis Vulpina L. and Certain Other Plants

Author : Constantine Demetry Sherbakoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Senile Changes in Leaves of Vitis Vulpina L. and Certain Other Plants written by Constantine Demetry Sherbakoff and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding "senility"

Author : Virginia Fraser
Publisher : Golden Age Books
ISBN 13 : 9780879753924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Understanding "senility" written by Virginia Fraser and published by Golden Age Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding "Senility" is designed to provide basic information about Alzheimer's disease and to help families who are dealing with a mentally impaired older person. In clear, understandable language, the book dispells myths about "senility," explores the early symptoms and later behavior patterns of Alzheimer's disease, and describes treatable conditions that are sometimes mistaken for Alzheimer's. Special emphasis is placed on the emotional needs of families. Compassionate suggestions are offered to help families cope with the painful changes they see in their loved one. Understanding "Senility" has been described by reviewers as "perceptive," "informative," "refreshingly well-organized and stated," and containing "a wealth of helpful information" for laypersons struggling to understand a complex and difficult problem.