Written for patients, their families, and caregivers, this will help readers understand what is physically happening to the brain so they can empower their own special skills and talents throughout the disease process. The book is divided into three sections that correspond to the progression of Alzheimer's and the unique challenges encountered at ......
Presents a thorough picture of what Lewy body dementia really is. Combining strategies for managing symptoms and behaviours with personal examples that connect to readers' own experiences, this is the ideal book for caregivers, family members, and friends of individuals seeking to understand the disease and provide support to their loved ones.
Sensory Stories and Activities for People Living with Advanced Dementia
With accessible resources and guidance, this book offers essential tools to support those living with advanced dementia through Namaste Care. Providing an overview of the approach, it draws on a range of professional expertise through contributory chapters on sensory activity and includes a variety of sensory stories and related activities.
Tool for caregivers that impact the way they relate to persons with Alzheimer's disease. This book maps each stage showing what to do from a caregiving standpoint. It has charts and sketches on what physically happens to the brain during the progression of Alzheimer's. Its four sections focus on the disease and also on being a caregiver.
Richard Taylor has a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This work shares his experiences with other individuals with the disease and their caregivers. It offers an insight into his life and the disease.
Addresses assessment, comorbidity, evaluation, and treatment of various forms of dementia. The handbook reviews common dementias including Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and other less common dementias. Sections discuss diagnosis, epidemiology, and neurobiology; assessment; and primary, ......
With the goal of alleviating the paucity of knowledge about advanced dementia, and helping to improve the care and services that are increasingly needed for the growing numbers of people living with dementia-type diseases, this book provides evidence-based measurement scales for use by researchers and care providers who are seeking to improve our ......
Person-Directed Care of Individuals with Dementia, Second Edition
Provides an approach to providing person-centered, problem-focused solutions to reduce anxiety about and improve comfort during bathing. This book offers suggestions on assessment, interventions, care products and equipment, training, and organizational changes required to implement person-directed care.