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 --
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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