Focuses on the issue of caregiving from various contextual frameworks - sociocultural, familial, and sociopolitical - as opposed to the more common disciplinary perspective. This book is suitable for preparing caregiving related programs and policies for the challenges of the aging baby boomer generation.
Essential Skills and Successful Strategies in Long-Term Care
Provides caregiving staff with easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the challenging behaviours of care recipients. Care staff will learn how to use this book's proven intervention tools and strategies to identify and satisfy the basic human needs that underlie challenging behaviours, as well as ......
Written by an expert in gerontological social work and curriculum development, this book provides a wealth of clinical information for social workers and other health care professionals who counsel older adults. It describes a strengths-based, empowerment approach to treatment that integrates theory, technique, advocacy and social policy and ......
Effective communication is critical for everyone, and this insightful book teaches the skills needed by healthcare staff in their day-to-day interactions with people with dementia and their families. Often when people with dementia exhibit behaviour that challenges, it is an indication that their needs are not being met. The authors ......
Provides guidelines for interaction with the elderly and presents techniques for overcoming common communication problems and disorders. This edition includes information on topics such as approaches for dealing with emotional strains of anxiety and depression. It is useful for courses in gerontology, social work, nursing, and communication.
This book addresses the needs of older adults (age 45 and older) with developmental disabilities and adults with other lifelong disabilities who have similar needs. It discusses age-related and disability-related issues in community life.
As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complex process. With contributions from noted professionals in psychiatry, neurology, molecular biology, sociology, history, ethics, and health policy, Concepts of Alzheimer Disease looks at the ways in which Alzheimer disease has been defined in various historical and ......
Researchers in different disciplines think of Alzheimer disease in different and sometimes conflicting ways as they grapple with complex problems such as its genetic basis, its relationship to aging, the provision of community services, and the ethical problems surrounding the personhood of those suffering from dementia. Such difficulty is ......
