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Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

New Books in Psychology

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The Benefits of Dogs for Dementia

There was an Alzheimer's dog movement in Australia. Dogs are very good for folks with dementia, and especially if they had a dog earlier in life,. A dog now will remind them of Sparky who they knew in their 20s or something like that. Anything that allows us to form communities with the deeply forgetful realize that there's, oftentimes, a little more there than meets the eye," she says.

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