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KRISHNA:
LIVING
WITH ALZHEIMER'S
Ranabir
Samaddar
Rs 250 Pb 2015
978-81-88965-92-2
(All rights available) |
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Alzheimer's is
the commonest form of dementia, a condition that denotes not only memory
loss but degeneration of all motor abilities. It has been estimated that
the incidence of Alzheimer's and other dementias among the ageing in
India is as high as 47 per cent.
This is the story of Krishna Bhattacharya's fight against
Alzheimer's, written by her husband. It is a frank, sensitive
and unsentimental account of inadequate medical knowledge; of the
importance of care; the ethics of care-giving; and the confusing,
heartrending, often frustrating, but also uplifting, experience of living
with a loved one who is living with Alzheimer's.
In this moving account Ranabir Samaddar turns his attention to
one of the most critical issues of human life today. He writes with the
insight of a sociologist and the compassion of one for whom 'quality of life'
depends as much or more on human interaction and empathy as it does on
palliative therapy.
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RANABIR SAMADDAR
is a leading social scientist and
director of the Calcutta Research Group. He is known for his work on
issues of migration, peace and human rights, belongs to the school of critical
thinking and is considered one of the foremost theorists
in the field of forced migration studies. The much-acclaimed
The Politics of Dialogue was a culmination of his
long work on justice, rights and peace. |
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