Better living with dementia : implications for individuals, families, communities, and societies
Gitlin, Laura N
Better living with dementia : implications for individuals, families, communities, and societies - London : Academic Press, 2018 - l, 288p
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
9780128119280
Dementia
Carers
Quality of life
Support
WM 220
Better living with dementia : implications for individuals, families, communities, and societies - London : Academic Press, 2018 - l, 288p
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
9780128119280
Dementia
Carers
Quality of life
Support
WM 220