Filled with new ideas and practical approaches, The Essential Dementia Care Handbook draws information from a wide variety of professionals working at the leading edge of dementia care.

Beginning with the diagnosis of dementia and other problems associated with aging, this handbook considers assessment, rehabilitation and therapy. A perfect resource for nursing staff, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, residential care workers, social workers and all those in day-to-day contact with elderly people, The Essential Dementia Care Handbook outlines practical interventions, illustrated with case studies that provide an interesting insight into contemporary understanding of the disease.

The handbook is broken down into the following sections:

• Part 1 - Setting the scene:


1. Attitudes to dementia: A decade of change
2. The 'dementias'
3. Physical and emotional problems in later life


• Part 2 - Discovery:


1. Cognitive and behavioral assessment
2. Memory clinics
3. A person-centered understanding
4. The environmental setting of dementia
5. Behavioral, ecobehavioral and functional analysis


• Part 3 - Relearning and rehabilitation:


1. Neuropsychological impairments and rehabilitation approaches
2. Promoting communication skills with people who have dementia
3. Responding to the need to toilet
4. Activity, occupation and stimulation


• Part 4 - Challenging behavior:


1. Working with aggression: prevention and intervention
2. Wandering: we walk, they wander!
3. Confusion


• Part 5 - Therapeutic interventions and family support:

1. Building therapeutic relationships with people who have dementia
2. Working with psychological distress
3. Trauma and dementia
4. Medication in the treatment of dementia
5. Supporting the families of people with dementia.

Adult.

Includes 204 pages. Paperback.