Forget memory : creating better lives for people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

x, 205 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

What is (and isn't) memory? : how a better understanding of memory might ease our fears about its loss -- The danger of stories : how stereotypes and the stigma of aging and dementia can hurt us -- Memory loss in the mainstream : tightly told tragedies of dementia with science as hero -- Tightly told tragedies of dementia : then versus now -- Not so tightly tragic : stories that imagine something more -- Not tragic at all : stories about memory loss without the old -- All of the above : Denny Crane as the clown of dementia -- StoryCorps and the memory loss initiative -- Memory bridge -- To whom I may concern -- TimeSlips creative storytelling project -- Songwriting works -- Dance : "Respect" and "Sea of heartbreak" -- The visual arts -- Duplex planet : the art of conversation -- The photography of Wing Young Huie -- Autobiographies by people with dementia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.