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| Two days in December | | Author(s) | Tim Dartington |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 6, no 3, August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 327-342 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Mental speed ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Quality of life ; Biographies. |
| Annotation | Tim Dartington has drawn on contemporaneous documents, diary notes and more recently a blog, in putting together this account of two days out of six years. Anna was a psychotherapist and writer on adolescence until she took early retirement in 2000 and underwent tests for Alzheimer's disease (AD). She died at home in May 2007. In his description of his own thought processes and associations to the progression of the disease, Tim has included detail from his observation of ways that Anna managed herself in relation to the illness, and also her verbatim comment. Anna has written her own account of the illness, 'My unfaithful brain' (published in 'Looking into later life: psychoanalytic perspectives on depression, dementia and old age'; edited by B Davenhill, 2007). (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071206202 A |
| Classmark | EA: DG: DB: F:59: 67 |
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