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101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia
Perhaps someone in your family has been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease'or maybe you worry about developing memory loss yourself. In Is It Alzheimer's?, Dr. Peter V. Rabins, a top expert in the field, educates readers by answering 101 often-asked questions about memory loss and dementia.
Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology
Unique among the world's fishes, frogfishes display a bizarre combination of attributes and behaviors that make them a subject of fervent study. Through cunning and trickery, they turn would-be predators into prey; they "walk" across the ocean floor and jet-propel through open water; some lay their eggs in a floating mucoid mass, ......
Activities for Memory-Challenged Adults and Their Caregivers
Dementia and related disorders impact the lives of those affected in countless ways, making it difficult to remain independent at work, at home, and in the wider world.
Caregivers hold the key to the health, well-being, and happiness of their aging relatives, partners, or friends. The Caregiver's Encyclopedia provides you with all of the information you need to take the best care of your loved one'from making major medical decisions to making sure you don't burn out.
101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia
Perhaps someone in your family has been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease'or maybe you worry about developing memory loss yourself. In Is It Alzheimer's?, Dr. Peter V. Rabins, a top expert in the field, educates readers by answering 101 often-asked questions about memory loss and dementia.
In the eighteenth century, antiquaries - wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians'used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not ......
Activities for Memory-Challenged Adults and Their Caregivers
Dementia and related disorders impact the lives of those affected in countless ways, making it difficult to remain independent at work, at home, and in the wider world. But recent studies have shown that structured activities can make a significant, positive difference by stimulating mental engagement while improving interactions between ......
This volume addresses questions of communication in several media, from the oral, printed, and visual to the physical. It encompasses essays featuring France, Germany, Early America, Scotland, and Britain more generally.
The first section, ""Manuscript Communications,"" opens with Dena Goodman's presidential address on the secret ......
How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in ......
