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Challenging Bias and Negative
Attitudes about Alzheimer's Disease
Contents:
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Where are the Home Caregivers?
Is It Guilt or Is It Grieving?
Do You Know This About Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's It's Just Another Way to Die!
Media Representation of Alzheimer's Disease
The Phil Donohue Show, 7/10/96
*Sometimes, A Bruise Is Just A Bruise
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This section will be exploring:
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How negative attitudes about Alzheimer's impact on our ability to function successfully as caregivers |
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How we, as caregivers, can empower ourselves by taking a more positive role in the caregiving tasks |
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The basic human essence of those who get this disease and re-affirming their rights for love, regard, and care. |
"It is insufficient to consider disease in purely mechanical or chemical terms, it must be considered equally in biological or metaphysical terms.
…One sees that beautiful and ultimate metaphysical truth, which has been stated by poets and physicians and metaphysicians in all ages…that love is the alpha and omega of being; and that the work of healing, or rendering whole, is first and last, the business of love."
Oliver Sacks. "Awakenings"
Caregiver Stories: <click here
Personal experiences of caregivers and how bias impeded their ability to do their jobs.