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This book explores how dementia acts as an existential threat, both to people diagnosed with the condition, and to their carers. The authors highlight how dementia not only gradually erodes our most fundamental abilities, but that it does so at a time of
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An Exploration into Emotion Regulation Richard Cheston Gary Christopher
Confronting the Existential Threat of Dementia
Richard Cheston · Gary Christopher
Confronting the Existential Threat of Dementia An Exploration into Emotion Regulation
Richard Cheston Department of Health and Social Sciences University of the West of England Bristol, UK
Gary Christopher Department of Health and Social Sciences University of the West of England Bristol, UK
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To our grandparents: Leslie, Iris, and Leslie
Acknowledgements
We would like to recognise the debt we owe to so many people. Most importantly, we would like to acknowledge the many people who are living with dementia and their relatives and supporters whom we have met over the years and who have taught us so much. This is both the people we have known in our work as psychologists, but also members of our own family and friends. Without their willingness to share their experiences, we could not have even started to write this book. We hope they feel we have been able to communicate some of that learning here. We would also like to thanks the many colleagues, friends, students, and trainees that we have worked with over the past years and whose support in developing our research and ideas over the years has been so important. We would es
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