InfoGuides: PSYC 221 Abnormal Psychology (Whyte): Aging and Cognition Disorders

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Disorders of Aging and Cognition include depression in later life, anxiety in later life, substance misuse in later life, psychotic disorders in later life, disorders of cognition (delirium, dementia, Alzheimers and other neurocognitive disorders). Use keywords to find books and encyclopedias. Check out this video explaining organic mental disorders.

Dementia

Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia
True account. Diary of the decline of her parents' lives due to Alzheimer's is a harrowing account of the gradual disintegration and ending of two lives in advanced age. It is also a daughter's loving memoir, a painstaking tale of the progression of dementia, with its sad, funny, mysterious, baffling, infuriating and frustrating series of incidents.

Alzheimers

Another Name for Madness
An account of a young woman's search for understanding and hope as she helplessly witnesses her mother's growing disorientation due to Alzheimer's disease.

Deaf Alzheimers

Gentle into the darkness : a deaf mother's journey into Alzheimer's