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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Susan H. McFadden (Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) , John T. McFaddenPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780801899867ISBN 10: 0801899869 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 27 July 2011 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dilemmas of Dementia Diagnoses 2. Receiving the Diagnosis 3. Personhood 4. What Is Friendship? 5. When Our Friends Travel the Dementia Road 6. Dementia Fear and Anxiety 7. Beyond Fear and Anxiety 8. The Flourishing Community 9. Congregations as Schools for Friendship 10. The Things That Abide 11. Practicing Friendship in the ""Thin Places"" 12. Memory, Forgetting, and the Present Time Discussion Questions Notes References Index"ReviewsA serious, scholarly, and sensitive book. -- Mary Gergen PsycCRITIQUES This must-read volume will inspire the reader to contemplate the call to care for others with self-giving communities. Highly Recommended. Choice 2012 A serious, scholarly, and sensitive book. -- Mary Gergen PsycCRITIQUES This must-read volume will inspire the reader to contemplate the call to care for others with self-giving communities. Highly Recommended. Choice 2012 Both A Loving Approach to Dementia Care and Aging Together are very kindly books giving warm guidance on coping with old people who are seriously confused. -- Martin Guha International Psychogeriatrics 2012 A serious, scholarly, and sensitive book. -- Mary Gergen PsycCRITIQUES This must-read volume will inspire the reader to contemplate the call to care for others with self-giving communities. Highly Recommended. Choice 2012 Both A Loving Approach to Dementia Care and Aging Together are very kindly books giving warm guidance on coping with old people who are seriously confused. -- Martin Guha International Psychogeriatrics 2012 This is not a how-to handbook but a kindly and perhaps over-optimistic general discussion that will be of interest to caregivers, particularly Americans, and particularly those coming from a religious background. The rest of us can all gain something from it too, however... Aging Together reminds us that warmth and friendship can be maintained in trying situations. -- Martin Guha International Psychogeriatrics 2012 Readable and useful...Anyone who wants to teach, practise or encourage person-centred care for people with dementia will find a lot in this book. -- Ibadete Fetahu Nursing Times 2012 Author InformationSusan H. McFadden is professor emerita of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She writes extensively on aging, religion, and spirituality. John T. McFadden is Memory Care Chaplain at the Appleton Health Care Center. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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