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  • How to Make Your Care Home Fun

    Simple Activities for People of All Abilities

    by 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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life

    On Caring for the Elderly

    by Karen Hitchcock ...
    Series Book 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” – ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dear Life

    On Caring for the Elderly

    by 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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Simplicity of Dementia

    A Guide for Family and Carers

    by Huub Buijssen ...
    This book offers an accessible and sympathetic introduction for relatives, carers and professionals looking after or training to work with people with dementia. Drawing on the two `laws of dementia', the author explains the causes of communication problems, mood disturbances and `deviant' behaviours, with particular emphasis on how these are experienced by dementia sufferers themselves. Case ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Take Care, Son

    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    by Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Early Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia

    Evidence-Based Practice

    by 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 ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Design for Nature in Dementia Care

    by 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 ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia

    Care-based Therapy

    by 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Anti-discriminatory Practice in Mental Health Care for Older People

    by Peter Cockersell, Musthafar Oladosu, Rena Kydd-Williams, Siobhan Spencer, Ajit Shah, Maria Castro Romero, Matt Broadway-Horner, Afreen Huq, Maureen McIntosh ...
    Exploring the key issues around anti-discriminatory practice for professionals working in mental health services, this book looks at ways to improve the health and social care of older people from minority and excluded communities.The chapters explore the issues involved in working with individuals from a range of minority groups, such as LGBT people, people with learning disabilities, people from ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Enriched Care Planning for People with Dementia

    A Good Practice Guide to Delivering Person-Centred Care

    by Paul Edwards, Dawn Brooker, Hazel May ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    The correlation between 'disengagement' and illness in people with dementia living in long-term care settings is becoming more widely recognised, and developing and adapting front-line staff responses to the changing needs of individuals is a crucial factor in addressing this problem.This book presents a complete practical framework for whole person assessment, care planning and review of persons ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Evaluation in Dementia Care

    Edited by 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. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Depression in Later Life

    by Steve Iliffe, Jill Manthorpe ...
    This accessible and authoritative book provides an invaluable guide to identifying, treating and preventing depression in later life.Jill Manthorpe and Steve Iliffe take a multidisciplinary approach and employ both medical and psycho-social models of depression. The medical model is used to identify symptoms, make diagnoses and work towards optimal treatment. Psycho-social perspectives provide ... Read more

    $25.99 USD