Aging together : dementia, friendship, and flourishing communities /

McFadden, Susan H.,

Aging together : dementia, friendship, and flourishing communities / Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Dilemmas of dementia diagnoses -- Receiving the diagnosis -- Personhood -- What is friendship? -- When our friends travel the dementia road -- Dementia fear and anxiety -- Beyond fear and anxiety -- The flourishing community -- Congregations as schools for friendship -- The things that abide -- Practicing friendship in the "thin places" -- Memory, forgetting, and the present time.

"Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age --



9781421401416

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Dementia--Patients--Family relationships.
Dementia--Social aspects.
Spirituality.
Alzheimer Disease--therapy
Aged--psychology
Alzheimer Disease--psychology
Community Networks
Social Support
Spirituality


Electronic Books.

RC521 / .A356 2011