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Better Living With Dementia
Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies
Gitlin, Hodgson
Editore
Academic Press
Anno
2018
Pagine
338
ISBN
9780128119280
72,00 €
DA SCONTARE
Features:
- 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
Table Of Contents:
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 Affected
2. Lived Experiences of Individuals with Dementia
3. Breaking the Cycle of Despair
4. Making Life Better for Individuals Living with Dementia
Part II: About Caregivers
5. Family Member as Care Partner
6. How We Can Support Families
7. Formal caregivers: Role of the Inter-professional Team
Part III: About Home and Community Environments
8. The Physical Home Environment – A Neglected Therapeutic Context
9. Living in the community
Part IV: About Social Systems and Policy
10. Settings and Services of Care
11. Global Efforts and National Plans
12. Transforming Dementia care
Part V: Taking Action
13. Developing and Implementing an Action Plan
14. Putting It All Together
