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THE FORGETTING
Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
David Shenk
Anchor Books, 2003
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Clinicians will learn how Alzheimer's is a disease that has reached epidemic proportions and learn the connections between the develeping skills of a child and the decrease in cognitive ability that besets Alzheimer's patients; how to recognize early stages; and rehabilitative conditioning.
The author includes anecdotes about the memory loss experienced by Ronald Reagan, Ralph Waldo Emerson and E.B. White. He recounts the tales of caregivers, many of whom become clinically depressed, and he delves deeply into scientific research and cultural issues surrounding research.
David Shenk is the author of Data Smog and a former fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. His articles have been published widely in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and many others, and he is an ocassional commentator on NPR's All Things Considered.
9 CE credits; 256 pages
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