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Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions

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  • 1st Edition - February 2, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Linda Garcia, Lynn McCleary, Neil Drummond
  • Language: English

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Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions provides evidence-informed approaches and future directions for supporting a higher quality of life for people living with dementia. Through a person-centered lens, this book equips care providers to better help people living with dementia align their expectations and hopes with the trajectories they can expect in their journey. It highlights the various transitions that those with dementia will experience and describes best practices for optimal adjustment to each. Topics covered include problem identification, driving cessation, loss of financial autonomy, acute hospital admission, moving to assisted living residences and long term care homes, and palliative and end of life care.

This is a must have reference for researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) as well as policy makers and other health and social care providers working with individuals with dementia.

Key features

  • Emphasizes empowerment and quality of life for all those living with dementia
  • Explores strategies for managing the ups and downs of the dementia journey from diagnosis to end of life
  • Recommendations are couched in evidence and extensive experience of the authors

Readership

Researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) in the field of gerontology/aging as well as policy makers and other medical caregivers working with dementia patients

Table of contents

1. Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions
Neil Drummond, Linda Garcia and Lynn McCleary

2. “It is not a disease, only memory loss”: exploring the
complexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in a
cross-cultural sample
Sharon Koehn

3. Driving cessation in people with dementia
Bonnie M. Dobbs

4. Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financial
elder abuse
Stacey Wood, Peter A. Lichtenberg, Muncuran Purewal and Linda Garcia

5. Hospitalization of persons with dementia
Katherine S. McGilton and Geneviève Lemay

6. Change in informal support: creating a caregiving system
Melanie Deist and Abraham P. Greeff

7. Transitioning from home in the community to an assisted
living residence
Lynn McCleary, Mackenzie Powell and Willian Dullius

8. Relocation to a long-term care home
Annie Robitaille

9. A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-life
Genevieve Thompson and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths

10. Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in
dementia
Linda Garcia, Neil Drummond and Lynn McCleary

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 2, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Linda Garcia

Professor Linda Garcia’s research interests focus on the impact of physical, social, technological and clinical environments on the quality of life of individuals with neurological disorders, especially dementia. She is interested in developing interventions that include approaches based on human interactions having worked previously as a Speech-language pathologist. She is currently the director of the University of Ottawa LIFE Research Institute, which takes an interdisciplinary, life trajectory approach to aging.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Lynn McCleary

Dr. McCleary is a Professor in the Department of Nursing and Graduate Program Director of the Master of Applied Gerontology Program in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. Dr. McCleary is also Adjunct Member, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto. She is a mental health and gerontological nurse who works with research teams and service providers on health and social care for older people and their families. Her research and practice emphasize improving dementia care services as well as improving gerontology and geriatrics education in the health professions. She is a past president of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Nursing, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario

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Neil Drummond

Dr. Drummond is an epidemiologist with interests principally in care for dementia in primary care, primary care surveillance and research, the public health-primary care interface, and health care for vulnerable communities.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Alberta Health Services Chair in Primary Care Research, Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada

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