The Dementia Awareness care quality guide aims to help health and social care staff and carers refresh, develop or extend their learning in key areas of practice.
Guides readers in incorporating poetry, music, and other arts into activity programming to increase interaction and encourage amusement and joy in dementia care. Author Gary Glazner demonstrates how anyone can incorporate creative verbal expression into activities of daily living (as well as day-to-day activities) in an effortless, economical, and ......
Examining important issues in dementia research and care that are often neglected or marginalized, the contributors to this book provide fresh perspectives on current practice. The authors put dementia care into a socio-cultural framework, highlighting the impact of social change on dementia care over the last two decades and challenging current ......
Several million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementing disorder. For families, professional caregivers, policy makers, and the patients themselves, the challenges are immense and the economic costs are staggering. In Dementia and Aging Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, and Peter J. Whitehouse bring together ......
Reflections and Directions for Policy and Practice
People with dementia may be more vulnerable to isolation, social exclusion, discrimination and abuse as a result of their diagnosis and symptoms. This book provides an overview of its key principles, development and delivery, and of the law and policy which surround it.
A comprehensive and practical guide to dementia, this book is essential reading for anyone who has a friend or relative with the condition. This updated edition reflects new guidance on approaches to supporting people with dementia, focussing especially on the UK, and includes quotes from people with dementia as well as from family carers. The ......
We live in a new reality of aid. Gone is the traditional bilateral relationship, the old-fashioned mode of delivering aid, and the perception of the third world as a homogenous block of poor countries in the south.
A Practical Guide to Symptoms, Treatments and Prevention
Focussing on delirium in elderly care, this book uses up to date research, practical examples and case studies to raise awareness of the condition, particularly among carers of people with dementia. By following the mantra Suspect it, Spot it and Stop it, the book will help to prevent people suffering from it.
Asian Trauma and Recovery addresses the double-bind Asian diaspora in the West commonly find themselves in-that of having to cope with high rates of maltreatment within the family, as well as racism and other forms of discrimination from without.
