Author: Christine Bryden
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: dementia, positively, living, story, dancing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-03-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 184310332X
ISBN-13: 9781843103325
Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype of people with dementia by campaigning for self-advocacy, writing articles and speaking at national conferences. This book is a vivid account of the author’s experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks. She describes how, with the support of her husband Paul, she
Authors:Gemma Jones, Bere Miesen,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: dementia, vol, caregiving, volume, care, giving
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 1997-09-22
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0415138442
ISBN-13: 9780415138444
Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in hands on caring, or in planning care, for persons with dementia. Volume 2 of Care-Giving in Dementia provides a rich source of information on most recent thinking about individualised long-term care of both dementia sufferers and their families. Key themes in Volume 2 are: the subjective experience of dementia the provision of care for family carers differing cultural p
Author: Garuth Chalfont
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: dementia, practice, guides, group, care, nature, design, bradford
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1843105713
ISBN-13: 9781843105718
Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. The benefits of connecting the subjective experience of dementia sufferers with their physical environment include sensory stimulation and enhanced cognitive, psychological and physical well-being, as well as improved behaviour management. "Design for Nature in Dementia Care" adopts a holistic and person-centred approach to caring for dementia sufferers by considering their emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being. The book provides comprehensive examples of th
Authors:Steve Iliffe, Vari Drennan,
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: dementia, practice, guides, group, bradford, care, primary
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-10
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1853029971
ISBN-13: 9781853029974
This practice and training guide is written with the needs of health and social care professionals working with people with dementia in mind. Drawing together theoretical considerations and examples of good practice, the authors look at the different stages of dementia and explain how to: make the initial diagnosis - including guidelines for distinguishing dementia from depression; convey the diagnosis to the person with dementia and their family - outlining the use of cognitive tests and the role of anti-dementia drugs; support the client through lifestyle adjustments; care for end-stage deme
Author: Dawn Brooker
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
Keywords: dementia, group, practice, bradford, guides, making, centred, care, person, services
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1843103370
ISBN-13: 9781843103370
The term person-centred care has been widely used, misused and ill defined. It is used frequently in the aims and objectives for dementia care services and provision, although in practice what lies behind the rhetoric can be questionable. This book gives fresh definition to the important ideas behind and the implementation of person centred care for people with dementia. Dawn Brooker explains the four key elements of person centred care that comprise the VIPS model: Valuing people with dementia and those who care for them (V); treating people as Individuals (I); looking at the world from the P
Author: Bere Miesen
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: close, dementia
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1998-12-09
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0415128846
ISBN-13: 9780415128841
Bère Miesen strives to give a much deeper understanding of the world of the dementia sufferer by describing and explaining the complex and varied relationships between the sufferer, their family and carers. The dependency and fear that dementia causes necessitates a sustained closeness, which in turn can engender conflict. Difficult issues of caring such as power, adoption, sexuality and aggression are discussed. Going beyond the purely medical descriptions of dementia, Miesen examines the behavior and responses of sufferers and their carers, giving families and professional carers the means
Author: Claire Biernacki
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: care, metamorphosis, dementia
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-04-27
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0470019972
ISBN-13: 9780470019979
Our perceptions of dementia and what dementia care should constitute have changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Research has uncovered a mass of information concerning all aspects of dementia. This wealth of information should be reflected in a dramatic change, indeed a metamorphosis, in the way people with dementia are cared for. No such change has occurred. Dementia - Metamorphosis in Care will address the need for change and provide practitioners with a means of understanding why adhering to the old model – the medical approach – can be damaging in current care settings.
