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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lenore S Powell; Katie Courtice |
| ISBN: | 0201632012 9780201632019 |
| OCLC Number: | 26763194 |
| Description: | xiv, 362 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Burden of Love -- Alzheimer's Disease: What It Is and What It Is Not -- Changes within the Brain -- Characteristics of the Disease -- Possible Causes of Alzheimer's Disease -- Other Possible Causes of Alzheimer's Disease -- Phases of Alzheimer's Disease -- Diseases with Similar Symptoms -- Theories of Aging in the Year 2000 -- Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease -- Factors in the Disease -- Is Alzheimer's a Vitamin B[subscript 12] Deficiency? -- Diagnostic Tests -- Treating the "Silent Epidemic": Research Developments -- Alternative Views of Alzheimer's Disease -- Ongoing Research -- New Choices in Natural Healing -- Preventing Alzheimer's -- Muscle Relaxation Benefits in Alzheimer's Patients -- Participating in Research -- Conflicting Interests in Research -- How Can We Prevent Brain Deterioration? -- An Uncharted Treatment for Alzheimer's Patients -- Alzheimer's Disease Is a Family Affliction -- Denial: Say It Isn't So -- Unconscious Denial -- Acknowledging the Problem -- Mutual Support Groups -- Anger: The Perplexing Emotion -- Why Does She Do Those Embarrassing Things? -- The Patient Isn't the Only Problem -- Understanding and Managing Anger -- Dealing with Frustration -- Spiritual Exercise: Dealing with Anger -- Depression: Longing for What Is Lost -- What Is Depression? -- Why Older People Get Depressed -- Sex, Intimacy, and Depression -- Stress Reactions in Caregivers -- Lifting the Depression -- Spiritual Exercise: Dealing with Depression -- Guilt: A Nagging Pain -- Conscious or Unconscious Guilt. |
| Responsibility: | Lenore S. Powell with Katie Courtice. |
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