Language, Dementia and Meaning Making

Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. She is an expert on the interrelationships between language and health care issues. Her previous works on include Conversations with an Alzheimer’s Patient (1994) and Language and Communication in Old Age (1999), The Handbook of Language and Health Communication (2014, edited with Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou) and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2015, edited with Deborah Tannen and Deborah Schiffrin).

• Chapter 1: Knowing, remembering and performing in everyday life with dementia.- Chapter 2: Struggling to find the right words.- Chapter 3: Forgetting facts about oneself.- Chapter 4: Recalling what just happened.- Chapter 5: Recounting personal experiences from long ago.- Chapter 6: Engaging with physical objects in the here-and-now.- Chapter 7: Performing memory.- Chapter 8: Connections.