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  • Embracing Touch in Dementia Care

    A Person-Centred Approach to Touch and Relationships

    de Luke Tanner ...
    Meaningful touch is an essential part of truly person-centred dementia care, yet its value is often viewed as secondary to its perceived risks. This book restores trust in the power of touch, demonstrating the vital role it plays in supporting personhood, relationships and wellbeing, and challenging the barriers preventing staff from using touch in meaningful ways.Using many examples from practice ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life

    On Caring for the Elderly

    de Karen Hitchcock ...
    Series Libro 57 - Quarterly Essay
    In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs.Ours is a society in which ageism, often disguised, threatens to turn the elderly into a “burden” – ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Dear Life

    On Caring for the Elderly

    de Karen Hitchcock ...
    In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society. Through some unforgettable case studies, she shows what care for the elderly and dying is really like – both the good and the bad. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatment, frailty and dementia.Dear Life is a moving and controversial argument against the creeping ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • A Long Bright Future

    de Laura Carstensen ...
    The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of life's stages. The ramifications are just beginning to dawn on us.... yet in the meantime, we keep thinking about, and planning for, life as it used to ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Early Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia

    Evidence-Based Practice

    de Suzanne Cahill, Bob Woods, Rose-Marie Droes, Hilary Husband, Molly Burnham, Steffi Urbas, Georgina Charlesworth, Manuel Franco, Inge Cantegreil-Kallen, Linda Clare, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Richard Cheston, Rabih Chattat, Irene Carr ...
    For the increasing number of people diagnosed with dementia each year, treatment in the early stages can make a significant difference to their quality of life. This book provides examples of psychosocial interventions: taking into consideration the individual, social and environmental aspects of the person's life.It looks at ways of providing support at the time of diagnosis and goes on to ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • How to Make Your Care Home Fun

    Simple Activities for People of All Abilities

    de Kenneth Agar ...
    As we grow older, our need to be engaged in interesting activities does not diminish and is vital to our quality of life. How to Make Your Care Home Fun examines the need for activities for elderly people in care and offers a practical programme of entertaining activities that can be used in nursing and residential homes, day centres, rehabilitation centres and hospices.As well as suggesting a ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Design for Nature in Dementia Care

    de Garuth Chalfont ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. Design for Nature in Dementia Care provides comprehensive examples of ways to connect to nature through indoor and outdoor activities.The author describes a wide range of activities that offer a connection to nature, such as caring for house plants and pets, gardening and ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Aging Our Way

    Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond

    de Meika Loe ...
    In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "One-Hundredth-Birthday" cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000. America is rapidly graying: between now and 2030, the number of people in the U.S. over the age of 80 is expected to almost triple. But how long people live raises the question of how well they live. Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Evaluation in Dementia Care

    Edición de Anthea Innes, Louise McCabe ...
    This authoritative collection sets out the critical role and application of evaluation in identifying and developing good practice in a range of dementia care settings.The contributors discuss the evaluation of care at different levels and in various settings, particularly long stay care, covering evaluation methods, ethics, use of technology and the user's role in the evaluation process itself. ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Connecting through Music with People with Dementia

    A Guide for Caregivers

    de Robin Rio ...
    For people with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive issues; bringing people together, and allowing a person to live in the moment. Connecting through Music with People with Dementia explains how a caregiver can learn to use melody or rhythm to connect with someone who may be otherwise non-responsive, and how ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia

    Care-based Therapy

    de Chris Bonner ...
    In Reducing Stress-Related Behaviours in people with Dementia, Chris Bonner has written a thoroughly entertaining, yet highly instructive, manual for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias... I highly recommend that everyone who encounters persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, routinely or occasionally, read through this manual. Even for seasoned professionals or family ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities

    Edición de Patricia Conway, George Singer, David Biegel ...
    Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD