
Better Living With Dementia
Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies
- 1st Edition - June 4, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Laura N.Gitlin, Nancy A. Hodgson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 9 2 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 9 2 9 - 7
Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients… Read more
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Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients with dementia. It presents the local and global challenges of these patients, also coupling foundational knowledge with specific strategies to overcome these challenges. The book examines the trajectory of the disease, offers stage-appropriate practices and strategies to improve quality of life, provides theoretical and practical frameworks that inform on ways to support and care for individuals living with dementia, includes evidence-based recommendations for research, and details global examples of care approaches that work.
- Weaves research evidence and theories with practical know-how
- Identifies support strategies for home, community, and health care settings
- Provides stage-appropriate strategies relative to dementia severity
- Summarizes dementia pathology, diagnosis, and progression
- Considers the changing needs of both the individual with dementia and family and formal caregivers
- Offers evidence-informed recommendations for research, practice, policy, and how to make things better at home, in the community, in healthcare and service settings, and through national policies
- Provides local and global exemplars of what works
- Provides case vignettes to illustrate key points with real examples
- Contains brief conversations with national and international experts
Mental health professionals including clinical psychologists and psychiatric nurses; academic researchers; students
Introduction: A Framework for Understanding Impacts of Dementia and Supporting Quality of Life with Disease Progression
Part 1: About the Person 1. How the Brain is Affected2. Lived Experiences of Individuals with Dementia3. Breaking the Cycle of Despair4. Making Life Better for Individuals Living with Dementia
Part II: About Caregivers5. Family Member as Care Partner6. How We Can Support Families7. Formal caregivers: Role of the Inter-professional Team
Part III: About Home and Community Environments8. The Physical Home Environment – A Neglected Therapeutic Context9. Living in the community
Part IV: About Social Systems and Policy 10. Settings and Services of Care11. Global Efforts and National Plans12. Transforming Dementia care
Part V: Taking Action13. Developing and Implementing an Action Plan14. Putting It All Together
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 4, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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