Abstract
I feel honoured to be invited to write this Foreword, to a positive presentation of the psychologies of ageing and of dementia. So much has changed since 1995, when I was diagnosed with dementia. I was only 46 and a recently divorced single mother of three girls aged 9, 13, and 19.We had just moved at the weekend into our new house and were looking forward to a bright new future. However, on the Monday after our move,I had a follow-up appointment with a neurologist, taking an hour off from work to do this. I had been suffering from extreme headaches each week, and what I thought were symptoms of stress, such as occasionally becoming confused with words, as well as with finding my way on familiar routes. There had been a few months of scans and tests, and now I was looking forward to finding out what was wrong.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Psychologies of ageing |
| Subtitle of host publication | Theory, research and practice |
| Editors | Elizabeth Peel, Carol Holland, Michael Murray |
| Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | v-viii |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319970349 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319970332 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |