Understanding Australia's Aged Care System To Support Older Loved OnesAt Home
An insiders guide to Australias aged care system with a specific focus on the aged care programs designed to support older people at home, My Parents Are Ageing, What The Heck Do I Do? shows people how the aged care system works, enabling them to get timely and appropriate outcomes to keep older loved ones at home.
Reducing the use of psychotropic drugs in the symptomatic treatment of dementia is key to successfully implementing compassionate, person-centered practices in your organization-and this book shows clearly why and how it can be done. The revised second edition of this award-winning resource introduces new research, language, and examples to ......
Growing old may at times seem cruel but Bernadette Smallwood offers a tender, alternative view of enduring love and friendship even when the mind is not what it once was. Her story, Around the Corner, is a collection of vignettes set in an aged care home. It focuses on an aged movie star plagued with dementia...
Making Impossible Decisions for Medically Complex Children
Fuelled by personal experience and interviews with clinicians and families, this compassionate book explores the realities of caring for a child with complex medical needs. It provides a vital insight into different parents' experiences to help medical professionals understand the roots of conflict and work with families to support patients.
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.
Enjoy the benefits and reduced stress that come from reconnecting people with dementia to lifelong activities they love. Using a strength-based approach, this guide shows step by step how to design meaningful, individualized activities that can be performed by a person with memory loss as independently as possible.
Acceptance-Based Guided Self-Help for People with IntellectualDisabilities
Sometimes, we can all try so hard to avoid causing ourselves pain that we dont live our lives to the full - and people with intellectual disabilities are no different.
Unbeknownst to many, bullying is not an experience limited to childhood, but is an epidemic occurring far too often among older adults as well. Bullying Among Older Adults is the first resource to address this critical issue, providing the knowledge and tools to recognize bullying and develop constructive ways to intervene and prevent it.
Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality
Winner, 2016 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability, American Sociological Association, Section Disability and Society Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with "invisible disabilities" such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Whether they are ......
