Tangled Minds: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dememtias

by Muriel R. Gillick

Book Overview

Alzheimer's has struck more than 4 million of the nation's elderly and is the most common form of mental degeneration. In Tangled Minds , Dr. Muriel R. Gillick convincingly demonstrates that confusion and loss of memory resulting from Alzheimer's, or in any form, is a disease known as dementia, and not an inevitable part of aging. Tangled Minds provides a comprehensive overview of dementia, its history, the politics of its fight for recognition, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452276470
• ISBN13: 9780452276475
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

a combined personal and professional review of Alzheimer's

I picked up this book while browzing the bookstore in an effort to make sense of the behavior my family was seeing in my 87 year old mother who had had a stroke (right brain) in 12/97. Having been told that she was suffering from "vascular dementia", I proceeded to investigate what that really meant. Even my son, a physician, was not really clear on how that differed from Alzheimer's. Dr. Gillick's book outlines a typical course of dementia, from early to late stage using a fictional composite patient drawn from her medical experience. She interstices this story with factual material on legal, political, medical research, and cost issues. I have recommended this book to friends and colleagues interested in aging, particularly related to brain assaults. There is much good material in this book even if the patient is not a diagnosed Alzheimer's sufferer.