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    Dasha Kiper.
    Summary: "After getting her master's in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper took a leave of absence from school and began to look after a Holocaust survivor with middle-stage Alzheimer's. For a year, she lived with the emotional strain of caregiving, learning at firsthand how disorienting and painful it can be to look after a person whose condition blatantly disregards the rules of time, order, and continuity. Based on the subsequent decade she has spent counseling caregivers of dementia patients, Kiper offers an entirely new approach to understanding the relationship between patients and those tending to them. In these poignant but unsentimental stories of parents and children, husbands and wives, Kiper dispels the myth of the perfect caregiver. Relying on a wide breadth of cognitive and neurological research and borrowing from philosophy and literature, Kiper explores the existential dilemmas created by this disease: a man believes his wife is an impostor; a woman's imaginary friendships with famous authors drive a wedge between her and her devoted husband; another woman's childhood trauma emerges to torment her son; a man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. As painful as these conflicts are for caregivers, resolving them has its own cost. In order to find peace, caregivers try to walk an impossibly fine line between acknowledging what the disease has taken from someone they love and recognizing what it has left"-- Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    Foreword / by Norman Doige
    Preface
    Borges in the Bronx : why we can't remember that dementia patients forget
    "The weak child" : why it's so hard to change our responses
    Dementia blindness : why it takes so long to see the disease
    Chekhov and the left brain interpreter : why we believe that the person we used to know is still there
    The insistent, persistent CEO : why we feel patients are still capable of self-awareness
    When every day is Sunday : why we dispute a patient's reality
    My dinner with Stefan Zweig : why we take patients' words and actions personally
    The mastermind : why we continue to rely on reason
    Ah humanity : why we attribute intention to patients' behaviors
    When the right thing is the wrong thing : why it's so hard to let go of blame
    Word girl : why we persist
    Epilogue.
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    Books: General Collection (Downstairs)
    2023
    RC521 .K574 2023
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