Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain Kiper Dasha
These compelling case-histories illuminate the complicated relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them.After getting her master's in clinical…
Specifikacia Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain Kiper Dasha
These compelling case-histories illuminate the complicated relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them.After getting her master's in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper took a leave of absence from school and began to look after a Holocaust survivor with middle-stage Alzheimer's. For a year, she lived with the emotional strain of caregiving, learning at firsthand how disorienting and painful it can be to look after a person whose condition blatantly disregards the rules of time, order, and continuity. Based on the subsequent decade she has spent counseling caregivers of dementia patients, Kiper offers an entirely new approach to understanding the relationship between patients and those tending to them.In these poignant but unsentimental stories of parents and children, husbands and wives, Kiper dispels the myth of the