I had a conversation yesterday with a friend who had just talked with some of the fascinating folks doing person-centered dementia care in Australia. There is lots of work happening internationally that fell out of the scope of Forget Memory (which is United States-centric), and I start this series of entries to draw people’s attention [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Outside the U.S. Part 1
Posted in art, books, tagged art and dementia, communication and dementia, dementia positive, John Killick, Kate Allen, Tom Kitwood on April 23, 2008 |
Film and Forgetting
Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged alzheimer's, film and dementia, forgetting on April 22, 2008 |
I’ve noticed a ton of traffic searching for info on film and forgetting. I am covering this pretty extensively in the book, so I thought I’d share some of the types/lists of films. There are films that directly address dementia and aging (Iris, Away From Her, the Notebook, Aurora Borealis, Diminished Capacity etc.). There are [...]
Boston Legal Addresses Alzheimer’s Again
Posted in cultural phenom, tagged alzheimer's, Boston Legal, Denny Crane, television characters with alzheimer's on April 21, 2008 |
Just as I’m putting the finishing touches on the book chapter about the Boston Legal character Denny Crane, the ABC series shows another episode that wrestles with Alzheimer’s. The chapter on Denny Crane in the book focuses on the incredible first season back in 2004 when the whole show seemed predicated on Denny being convinced [...]
Why Block’s Story of Forgetting is so good…
Posted in books, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, early on-set, novels, review, stephen merrill block, The Story of Forgetting on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I picked up the book at Kramer’s (another favorite independent bookstore) in D.C. when I was there for the American Society on Aging in March. I started reading in a cramped Thai restaurant (sipping my favorite soup) and finished on the plane to Florida a week later. But the characters are so inviting (quirky as [...]
An update on Diminished Capacity
Posted in film, tagged Diminished Capacity, films on dementia, films on memory loss on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I went to update my list of films about dementia in the book (my new deadline for final copy is May 1st!), and I found out that Diminished Capacity, the film about memory loss and dementia (with Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda) that played at Sundance this year, has been picked up by IFC. Looks [...]
A Buzz on Enbrel
Posted in cultural phenom, medicine, public education, science of memory, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, Enbrel, miracle cure, peter whitehouse on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s a lot of electronic activity going on about “video proof” of a “miracle cure” for Alzheimer’s – the anti-arthritis medication Enbrel. I think it’s important to listen to all the voices out there on this one. The impulse is to fly into action and proclaim a cure. But there’s a lot of science that [...]
NPR review of the Story of Forgetting
Posted in books, cultural phenom, tagged Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting on April 8, 2008 |
Here’s Alan Cheuse’s review of Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting…. “a debut worth remembering…”
