Posted in cultural phenom, public education, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, Fox News, intimacy, love, love in the time of dementia, NPR, O'Connor on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Thanks to the O’Connor family, we had a burst of media coverage on the issues of love and intimacy in late life, particularly in the case of dementia. Scott O’Connor told a local reporter that the family was so happy that their father had found love just two days after moving into an assisted living [...]
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“What is memory? Memory is a glorious and admirable gift of nature, by means of which we recall past things, embrace present things, and contemplate future things, thanks to their resemblance with past things.”
Boncompagno da Signa, in Rhetorica novissima (in Jacques Le Goff’s History and Memory, 1994)
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Posted in cultural phenom, medicine, public education, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, forgetting, mental illness, Stephen Hinshaw, stigma, The Mark of Shame on November 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, at least I think it’s a great book. I’m only on page 22. Stephen Hinshaw’s The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change is new from Oxford University Press. I just got it through interlibrary loan and am drinking up his careful distinctions between stigma, [...]
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Posted in art, cultural phenom, tagged alzheimer's, child as parent, forgetting, In The Moment, Karen Stobbe, memory, parent as child, Pigs in a blanket on November 3, 2007 | No Comments »
When people talk or write about care giving experiences, you’ll often hear or read something like this: “I’m the parent now.” I’m so intrigued by this theme in care giving stories, particularly in cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Do people really see these relationships as the same? What differences do they ignore? We have a [...]
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