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Dementia Care

  • 1 Edición - 13 de enero de 1999
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Trevor Adams, Charlotte L. Clarke
  • Idioma: Inglés

This book provides a comprehensive research-based source of material, which focuses on the important issue of dementia and family care. It critically examines how dementia is… Leer más

Descripción

This book provides a comprehensive research-based source of material, which focuses on the important issue of dementia and family care. It critically examines how dementia is defined, diagnosed and 'treated' and provides a new environmentally focused approach to this challenging and growing issue for nurses and other care givers.

De interès para

General Practitioners; Practising nurses working with the elderly

Índice

Introduction: a Partnership Approach to Dementia Care / Dementia Care Partnerships: Knowledge, Ownership and Exchange / Developing Partnership in Dementia Care: a Discursive Model of Practice / Western Medicine and Dementia: a Deconstruction / Ethical Dilemmas in Dementia Care / Towards a Partnership in Maintaining Personhood / Communication in Dementia Care: a Partnership Approach / This Is Your Life: Research Paradigms in Dementia Care / Keeping a Distance: the Reactions of Older People in Care Homes to Confused Fellow Residents / the Family Caring Experiences of Married Women in Dementia Care / the Long Goodbye: the Experience of Loss in Husbands Who Care for a Wife with Dementia / the Early Experience of Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for Partnership and Practice / Young-Onset Dementia / Professional Practice with People with Dementia and Their Family Carers: Help or Hindrance? / Developing Partnership in the Work of Community Psychiatric Nurses with Older People with Dementia / Attitudes Towards Dementia Care: Education and Morale in Health-Care Teams / Partnership in Dementia Care: Taking It Forward.

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 13 de enero de 1999
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

TA

Trevor Adams

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Lecturer, European Institute of Health and Medical Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

CC

Charlotte L. Clarke

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Research Fellow, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK