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◂  April 2017

Understanding the Experience and Selfhood of People with Alzheimer’s Disease
4/6/20177:30pm8:45pm

Published by: aaron

Venue

Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

Register

$5 at the door

photo of Steven R. Sabat, Ph.D.“Understanding the Experience and Selfhood of People with Alzheimer’s Disease: Context is Key” is a presentation by Steven R. Sabat, PhD., keynote speaker at Discovery 2017, the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual conference.

Our understanding of people living with Alzheimer’s disease has been dominated by a biomedical point of view, focused primarily on disability. With a shift in perspective drawn from Dr. Sabat’s research,he’ll help us see a very different picture: Ability.

Dr. Sabat is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgetown University. He received Georgetown College’s Edward B. Bunn Award for Excellence in Teaching three times (1988, 1995, 2013), the Georgetown College Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003) and the College Academic Council’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2012). For the past 35 years, he has studied the intact cognitive and social abilities of people with Alzheimer’s disease in the moderate to severe stages, the persistence of selfhood, the subjective experience of having the disease, and how communication between persons diagnosed and their caregivers may be enhanced. He has explored these issues in numerous scientific journal articles and book chapters, presentations at national and international conferences, in his book, The Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease: Life Through a Tangled Veil (Blackwell, 2001) and in his co-edited book, Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person (Oxford University Press, 2006).

This event is open to anyone. Admission is $5 per person. Note: The Alzheimer’s Association’s Discovery 2017 conference starts the following day at the Washington State Convention Center. Visit the conference website for agenda and registration information.

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