Tangled Minds: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
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Book Overview
Alzheimer's has struck more than 4 million of the nation's elderly and is the most common form of mental degeneration. In Tangled Minds , Dr. Muriel R. Gillick convincingly demonstrates that confusion... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0525941452
ISBN13:9780525941453
Release Date:April 1998
Publisher:Dutton Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 8.9" x 5.8"
Customer Reviews
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a combined personal and professional review of Alzheimer's
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I picked up this book while browzing the bookstore in an effort to make sense of the behavior my family was seeing in my 87 year old mother who had had a stroke (right brain) in 12/97. Having been told that she was suffering from "vascular dementia", I proceeded to investigate what that really meant. Even my son, a physician, was not really clear on how that differed from Alzheimer's. Dr. Gillick's book outlines a typical course of dementia, from early to late stage using a fictional composite patient drawn from her medical experience. She interstices this story with factual material on legal, political, medical research, and cost issues. I have recommended this book to friends and colleagues interested in aging, particularly related to brain assaults. There is much good material in this book even if the patient is not a diagnosed Alzheimer's sufferer.
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