Title Dancing with dementia : my story of living positively with dementia / Christine Bryden.

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London : Jessica Kingsley, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (200 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	A 'roller-coaster' journey since early 1998 -- 'Coming out' with dementia -- Let's talk about having dementia -- I know who I'll be when I die.
Summary	Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype of people with dementia by campaigning for self-advocacy, writing articles and speaking at national conferences. This book is a vivid account of the author's experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks. She describes how, with the support of her husband Paul, she contin.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Bryden, Christine, 1949- -- Mental health.
	Bryden, Christine, 1949-
	Bryden, Christine, 1949- (OCoLC)fst01595824
	Dementia -- Patients -- Biography.
	Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.
	Dementia -- Patients.
	Alzheimer's disease -- Patients.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
	Alzheimer's disease -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00806557
	Dementia -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00890057
	Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Bryden, Christine, 1949- Dancing with dementia. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2005 184310332X (DLC) 2004021146 (OCoLC)56517758
ISBN	1846420954 (electronic bk.)
	9781846420955 (electronic bk.)

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