1st Edition
The Essential Dementia Care Handbook A Good Practice Guide
By Fiona Goudie
Copyright 2002
238 Pages
by
Speechmark
240 Pages
by
Speechmark
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Replacing the successful "Working with Dementia", this edition draws together many new ideas and practical approaches from a wide variety of professionals working at the leading edge of the provision of services to people with dementia and provides a comprehensive account of current best practice. Beginning with the diagnosis of dementia and other problems associated with aging, this book... Read more
245 x 171mm, 240pp Paperback: ISBN 978-0-86388-244-9 ORDER CODE D11-002-4254 GBP29.75 Part 1 Setting the scene: Attitudes to dementia: A decade of change; The 'dementias'; Physical and emotional problems in later life; Part 2 Discovery: Cognitive and behavioural assessment; Memory clinics; A person-centred understanding; The environmental setting of dementia; Behavioural, ecobehavioural and functional analysis; Part 3 Relearning and rehabilitation: Neuropsychological impairments and rehabilitation approaches; Promoting communication skills with people who have dementia; Responding to the need to toilet; Activity, occupation and stimulation; Part 4 Challenging behaviour: Working with aggression: prevention and intervention; Wandering: we walk, they wander!; Confusion; Part 5 Therapeutic interventions and family support: Building therapeutic relationships with people who have dementia; Working with psychological distress; Trauma and dementia; Medication in the treatment of dementia; Supporting the families of people with dementia.
Biography
Fiona Goudie
