Forgetting Items
The Social Experience of Alzheimer's Disease

Baptiste Brossard (Author)

9780253044969

Hardback, published 31 July 2019

172 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.367 kg

"Forgetting Items is in the upper echelons of social dementia research and deserves substantial positive attention for an entertaining and revelatory contribution to the field."—Symbolic Interaction

Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. Forgetting Items focuses on that social experience of Alzheimer's, delineating the ways disease symptoms manifest and are understood through the interactions between patients and the people around them. Mapping out those interactions takes readers through the offices of geriatricians, into patients' narratives and interviews with caregivers, down the corridors of nursing homes, and into the discourses shaping public policies and media coverage. Revealing the everyday experience of Alzheimer's helps us better understand the depth of its impact and points us toward more knowledgeable, holistic ways to help treat the disease.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Organization of Repairing Exchanges
Chapter Two: Losing Credibility
Chapter Three: The Deference Industry
Chapter Four: Reconstituting People
Conclusion
Notes