Remembering Well: How Memory Works and what to Do when it Doesn'tAllen & Unwin, 2001 - 167 pages How does memory change as we grow older, and what can we do about it? This is question is at the heart of Remembering Well. Drawing on many people's experiences, the book: explains how memory works and what factors affect it - like hearing and stress; explores what is part of normal memory change over the years and what is not; and presents strategies for managing these changes well. |
Contents
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What else affects remembering? | 27 |
what can we do? | 135 |
Towards a memoryfriendly community | 147 |
Other editions - View all
Remembering Well: How Memory Works and What to Do When It Doesn't Delys Sargeant,Anne Unkenstein No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 60 - Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, All the rest have 31 Except February, which has 28 Save in leap year When February has one day more.
Page 9 - Memory is a net ; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Page 61 - PLANETS (in sequence measured in distance from the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), the natural SATELLITES which revolve round the planets (eg the moon around the earth), the ASTEROIDS, COMETS, METEORS, METEORITES.
Page 11 - Vivere bis vita posse priore frui (The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice).
Page 69 - Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Page 9 - A smell can be overwhelmingly nostalgic because it triggers powerful images and emotions before we have time to edit them.
Page 6 - There is no known limit to the amount of information that can be stored in longterm memory.
Page 9 - When we give perfume to someone, we give them liquid memory. Kipling was right: 'Smells are surer than sights and sounds to make your...
Page 157 - Caine, ED, Nomenclature and diagnosis of cognitive disorders: a US perspective, Abstract from Age-related Cognitive Disorders conference. Nice (Glaxo), June 1992...
References to this book
Explorations in Dementia: Theoretical and Research Studies Into the ... Mike Bender Limited preview - 2003 |