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Simplicity of Dementia: Guide for Family and Carers

  • ISBN-13: 9781843103219
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Huub Buijssen
  • Price: AUD $33.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2005
  • Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 141.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 226g
  • Categories: Care of the elderly [JKSG]
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Huub Buijssen is a psychogerontologist and clinical psychologist and has written many successful books on the subject of dementia. He regularly lectures to relatives and carers of dementia sufferers.
Foreword. 1. What is dementia? 2. The simple logic behind dementia 3. How the dementing patient experiences his situation 4. Communicating with the dementing patient/relative 5. Mood problems: aggression, depressiveness and suspicion 6. Behaviour problems: clinging behaviour, wandering off, and nocturnal unrest 7. Interaction rules and activities 8. The family: the quiet victims 9. Guilt feelings. References. Helpful resources. About the author.
`Relatives and carers will find this book a source of essential information and encouragement to deal confidently with the difficulties posed by the condition both for people with Dementia and those around them'.
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