Deeper Into The Soul: Beyond Dementia & Alzheimer's Toward Forgetfulness Care

Deeper Into The Soul: Beyond Dementia & Alzheimer's Toward Forgetfulness Care by Bogna Szymkiewicz. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780975874486.

This book is a practical guide for people who work and live with relatives or residents with symptoms of forgetfulness. The authors offer ideas and tips dealing with symptoms such as aggression and wandering, but they also explore a new way of understanding the people for whom we care. They ask the basic existential questions: What are the possible meanings of forgetfulness? What purpose does it serve for both caregiver and the one experiencing forgetfulness? In Deeper into the Soul: Beyond Dementia and Alzheimer’s Toward Forgetfulness Care, the authors invite us to shift our attitude toward dementia, or forgetfulness, as they call it. Accompanying us are four characters—a sage, a psychologist, a physician, and an intern—who each sees Forgetfulness from a different viewpoint. The goal is to develop a perspective which includes the basic ingredients of openness, curiosity and acceptance. Deeper into the Soul reminds us that each stage of forgetfulness is a meanin