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  Title

  Dementia reimagined : building a life of joy and dignity from beginning to end

  Author

  Powell, Tia (Psychiatrist),  

  Publisher:

  Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House,

  Pub date:

  [2019]

  Description:

  310 pages ;

  ISBN:

  073521090X

  Item info:

  3 copies currently available - Glen Allen Library, Libbie Mill Library, and Fairfield Area Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Fairfield Area Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    616.831 POWELL	2	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    Glen Allen Library
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    616.831 POWELL	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    Libbie Mill Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    616.831 POWELL	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction

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  Dementia reimagined : building a life of joy and dignity from beginning to end
  Powell, Tia (Psychiatrist),
  

  Personal Author:

  Powell, Tia (Psychiatrist),

  Title:

  Dementia reimagined : building a life of joy and dignity from beginning to end / Tia Powell, MD.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2019]

  Physical descrip:

  310 pages ; 24 cm.

  Summary:

  "The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to mention confronting the hard truth that her own odds aren't great. In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day; by the time a person reaches 85, their chances of having dementia approach 50 percent. And the truth is, there is no cure, and none coming soon, despite the perpetual promises by pharmaceutical companies that they are just one more expensive study away from a pill. Dr. Powell's goal is to move the conversation away from an exclusive focus on cure to a genuine appreciation of care--what we can do for those who have dementia, and how to keep life meaningful and even joyful. Reimagining Dementia is a moving combination of medicine and memoir, peeling back the untold history of dementia, from the story of Solomon Fuller, a black doctor whose research at the turn of the twentieth century anticipated important aspects of what we know about dementia today, to what has been gained and lost with the recent bonanza of funding for Alzheimer's at the expense of other forms of the disease. In demystifying dementia, Dr. Powell helps us understand it with clearer eyes, from the point of view of both physician and caregiver. Ultimately, she wants us all to know that dementia is not only about loss--it's also about the preservation of dignity and hope"-- Provided by publisher.

  Held by:

  GLEN-ALLEN LIBBIEMILL FAAREA

  Subject term:

  Alzheimer's disease--Popular works.

  Subject term:

  Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care--Popular works.

  Subject term:

  Dementia--Popular works.

  Subject term:

  Dementia--Patients--Care--Popular works.