The novel which inspired the award-winning Hollywood film Still Alice is to be prescribed to patients who have dementia, below a new scheme for libraries.
Even now Alice, which described the descent of an academic into early onset Alzheimer’s, will be advised to patients and carers to aid them recognize much more about the condition.
The 2007 book, by Lisa Genova, rose to throughout the world fame thanks in component to a movie adaptation, which noticed Julianne Moore win a SAG Award and Golden Globe for her portrayal of the turmoil of dementia.
It is just 1 of 25 titles now launched on the updated Reading Nicely Books on Prescription scheme, which is backed by GPs, psychological wellness experts and government ministers and sees individuals being “prescribed” set books to study.
Each and every text is aimed at providing non-medicinal support for people with dementia, and will be produced offered in each Uk public library for free of charge.
It includes texts giving tips about symptoms and how the illness progresses, as effectively as how to make the most of daily life with dementia and the personalized accounts of those who have suffered it.
It also has books aimed at helping carers and family members, picture books, and suggestions for therapeutic actions to assist navigate the hard path of memory loss.
The notion is a spin-off of the scheme very first launched in 2013, which saw GPs providing individuals who suffered psychological wellness difficulties written prescriptions to pay a visit to their regional library to read through a variety of thirty accepted texts.
The initiative, run by The Reading through Company, the Society of Chief Librarians and the Arts Council, resulted in each public library having a designated listing of texts for difficulties ranging from “anger” to “worry”.
The new scheme, hailed by wellness minister Norman Lamb as “fantastic”, is supported by a host of professional, health care and charitable bodies like the Alzheimer’s Society, The British Psychological Society, Carers United kingdom, Dementia United kingdom, Royal School of General Practitioners, and the Royal University of Psychiatrists.
Other titles on the “dementia” listing contain The Little Woman in the Radiator: Mum, Alzheimer’s and Me by Martin Slevin, Dancing With Dementia: My Story of Living Positively with Dementia by Christine Bryden, and When Somebody You Enjoy Has Dementia by Susan Elliot-Wright.
The Studying Agency has also previously published a listing of “mood-boosting books”, stated to be the novels, poems and quick stories which are confident to cheer folks up.
It consists of Bill Bryson’s Notes from the Small Island, Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie, Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, children’s guide The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Goodnight Mister Tom andTo Destroy A Mockingbird.
"Still Alice" prescribed to individuals to support beat dementia
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