Better Living With Dementia

Author : Laura N. Gitlin,Nancy A. Hodgson
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128119297

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Better Living With Dementia by Laura N. Gitlin,Nancy A. Hodgson Pdf

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.

Author : Liz Leach Murphy,Jayna Patel
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781914171581

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Living a Good Life with Dementia by Liz Leach Murphy,Jayna Patel Pdf

A practical guide to helping those living with dementia live their best life in a way that makes sense to them. Essential reading for anyone working with people living with dementia, this book explains the concept of Self-Directed Support and Care for people living with dementia and links the various Person Centred approaches within dementia care with Person Centred Planning and Community based approaches. As the content unfolds, the concept of the Dementia Care Triad (people living with dementia, unpaid carers and professional carers) is explored and developed further to include the layer of community. The links between the health and social care legal context, guidance documents and national dementia strategies are presented with good, actionable practice, approaches, tools and informed advice to achieve Person Centred dementia care and support, with an emphasis on communities Living a Good Life with Dementia will help professionals and carers gain knowledge and insight to be able to develop creative ideas for the care and support they want to have in place.

Author : Christine Bryden
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 184310332X

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Dancing with Dementia by Christine Bryden Pdf

Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Dancing with Dementia is a vivid account of her experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks. She describes how, with the support of her husband Paul, she continues to lead an active life nevertheless, and explains how professionals and carers can help. This book is a thoughtful exploration of how dementia challenges our ideas of personal identity and of the process of self-discovery it can bring about.

Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Care Interventions for Individuals with Dementia and Their Caregivers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0309154294

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Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Care Interventions for Individuals with Dementia and Their Caregivers Pdf

Author : Rachael Wonderlin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421420653

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When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community by Rachael Wonderlin Pdf

"When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community is an accessible guide offering answers to such questions as: How do I choose a place for my loved one to live? What can I find out by visiting a candidate memory-care community twice? What do I do if my loved one asks about going home? How can I improve the quality of my visits? What is the best way to handle conflict between residents, or between the resident and staff? How can I cope with my loved one's sundowning? What do I do if my loved one starts a romantic relationship with another resident?An indispensable book for family members and friends of people with dementia, When Someone You Know is Living in a Dementia Care Community touches the heart while explaining how to make a difficult situation better.

Author : Shibley Rahman
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781784500627

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Living Better with Dementia by Shibley Rahman Pdf

What do national dementia strategies, constantly evolving policy and ongoing funding difficulties mean for people living well with dementia? Adopting a broad and inclusive approach, Shibley Rahman presents a thorough critical analysis of existing dementia policy, and tackles head-on current and controversial topics at the forefront of public and political debate, such as diagnosis in primary care, access to services for marginalised groups, stigma and discrimination, integrated care, personal health budgets, personalised medicine and the use of GPS tracking. Drawing on a wealth of diverse research, and including voices from all reaches of the globe, he identifies current policy challenges for living well with dementia, and highlights pockets of innovation and good practice to inform practical solutions for living better with dementia in the future. A unique and cohesive account of where dementia care practice and policy needs to head, and why, and how this can be achieved, this is crucial reading for dementia care professionals, service commissioners, public health officials and policy makers, as well as academics and students in these fields.

Author : Gaynor Macdonald,Jane Mears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351241793

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Dementia as Social Experience by Gaynor Macdonald,Jane Mears Pdf

A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other – for those living with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we may all live good lives with dementia. This innovative volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to focus on dementia as lived experience. It foregrounds dementia’s social, moral, political and economic dimensions, investigating the challenges of reframing the dementia experience for all involved. Part I critiques the stigmas, the negativity, language and fears often associated with a dementia diagnosis, challenging debilitating representations and examining ways to tackle these. Part II examines proactive practices that can support better long-term outcomes for those living with dementia. Part III looks at the relational aspects of dementia care, acknowledging and going beyond the notion of person-centred care. Collectively, these contributions highlight the social and relational change required to enhance life for those with dementia and those who care for them. Engaging in a critical conversation around personhood and social value, this book examines the wider social contexts within which dementia care takes place. It calls for social change, and looks for inspiration to the growing movement for relational care and the caring society. Dementia as Social Experience is important reading for all those people who, in various ways, are living with dementia, as well as for those working in this area as clinicians, researcher and carers.

Author : Nicole D. Anderson,Kelly J. Murphy,Angela K. Troyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197749340

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Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment by Nicole D. Anderson,Kelly J. Murphy,Angela K. Troyer Pdf

"As you have grown older, you may have noticed changes in your memory. You might find yourself walking into a room and forgetting why you are there. It might be more difficult to remember the name of someone you just met. You may also notice that it takes longer to come up with words in conversation"--

Author : Nancy L. Mace,Peter V. Rabins
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781421441702

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The 36-Hour Day by Nancy L. Mace,Peter V. Rabins Pdf

The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral Cognitive and Sensory Sciences,Committee on the Decadal Survey of Behavioral and Social Science Research on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0309495032

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Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral Cognitive and Sensory Sciences,Committee on the Decadal Survey of Behavioral and Social Science Research on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias Pdf

As the largest generation in U.S. history - the population born in the two decades immediately following World War II - enters the age of risk for cognitive impairment, growing numbers of people will experience dementia (including Alzheimer's disease and related dementias). By one estimate, nearly 14 million people in the United States will be living with dementia by 2060. Like other hardships, the experience of living with dementia can bring unexpected moments of intimacy, growth, and compassion, but these diseases also affect people's capacity to work and carry out other activities and alter their relationships with loved ones, friends, and coworkers. Those who live with and care for individuals experiencing these diseases face challenges that include physical and emotional stress, difficult changes and losses in their relationships with life partners, loss of income, and interrupted connections to other activities and friends. From a societal perspective, these diseases place substantial demands on communities and on the institutions and government entities that support people living with dementia and their families, including the health care system, the providers of direct care, and others. Nevertheless, research in the social and behavioral sciences points to possibilities for preventing or slowing the development of dementia and for substantially reducing its social and economic impacts. At the request of the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America assesses the contributions of research in the social and behavioral sciences and identifies a research agenda for the coming decade. This report offers a blueprint for the next decade of behavioral and social science research to reduce the negative impact of dementia for America's diverse population. Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America calls for research that addresses the causes and solutions for disparities in both developing dementia and receiving adequate treatment and support. It calls for research that sets goals meaningful not just for scientists but for people living with dementia and those who support them as well. By 2030, an estimated 8.5 million Americans will have Alzheimer's disease and many more will have other forms of dementia. Through identifying priorities social and behavioral science research and recommending ways in which they can be pursued in a coordinated fashion, Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America will help produce research that improves the lives of all those affected by dementia.

Author : Randy L. Griffin,Randy Griffin, RN, MS, HNC
Publisher : PHC Publishing Group
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 1937661016

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Changing the Culture for Dementia Care by Randy L. Griffin,Randy Griffin, RN, MS, HNC Pdf

Author : Tia Powell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780735210929

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Dementia Reimagined by Tia Powell Pdf

The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to mention confronting the hard truth that her own odds aren't great. In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day; by the time a person reaches 85, their chances of having dementia approach 50 percent. And the truth is, there is no cure, and none coming soon, despite the perpetual promises by pharmaceutical companies that they are just one more expensive study away from a pill. Dr. Powell's goal is to move the conversation away from an exclusive focus on cure to a genuine appreciation of care--what we can do for those who have dementia, and how to keep life meaningful and even joyful. Reimagining Dementia is a moving combination of medicine and memoir, peeling back the untold history of dementia, from the story of Solomon Fuller, a black doctor whose research at the turn of the twentieth century anticipated important aspects of what we know about dementia today, to what has been gained and lost with the recent bonanza of funding for Alzheimer's at the expense of other forms of the disease. In demystifying dementia, Dr. Powell helps us understand it with clearer eyes, from the point of view of both physician and caregiver. Ultimately, she wants us all to know that dementia is not only about loss--it's also about the preservation of dignity and hope.

Author : Teepa L. Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Alzheimer's disease
ISBN : 0615890113

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Dementia Caregiver Guide by Teepa L. Snow Pdf

This simple, easy to read, 100 page guidebook helps family members, friends, and caregivers to better understand the changes that come with advancing dementia or other impairments in thinking, reasoning or processing information. It also reinforces the impact of Teepa Snow's guidance and person-centered care interventions including the GEMS and Positive Approach to Care techniques. The goal is to provide better support and care practices when someone is living with an ever-changing condition. By appreciating what has changed but leveraging what is still possible, care partners can choose interactions that are more positive, communication that is more productive, and care that is more effective and less challenging for all involved.

Author : Elizabeth C. Brawley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471139203

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Designing for Alzheimer's Disease by Elizabeth C. Brawley Pdf

Designing for Alzheimer's Disease offers a complete blueprint for effective design development and implementation, with the full benefit of Elizabeth Brawley's extensive professional background in design for aging environments and her own family's experience with Alzheimer's disease.

Author : Dawn Brooker
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1846425883

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Person-Centred Dementia Care by Dawn Brooker Pdf

The term person centred care has been widely used, misused and ill defined. It is used frequently in the aims and objectives for dementia care services and provision, although in practice what lies behind the rhetoric can be questionable. This book gives fresh definition to the important ideas behind and the implementation of person centred care for people with dementia. Dawn Brooker explains the four key elements of person centred care that comprise the VIPS model: Valuing people with dementia and those who care for them (V); treating people as Individuals (I); looking at the world from the Perspective of the person with dementia (P); and a positive Social environment in which the person living with dementia can experience relative well being (S). With an emphasis on practical application, Person Centred Dementia Care provides care organisations with clear, accessible guidelines on how to put the VIPS model into operation for effective care that is `fit for VIPs'. Part 2 of the book comprises the VIPS organisational reflection tool, which care providers can use to assess how well they think they are doing at providing person-centred care. This will be essential reading for practitioners working with and policy makers responsible for people with dementia at all levels.