ABSTRACT
Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in hands on caring, or in planning care, for persons with dementia. Volume 2 of Care-Giving in Dementia provides a rich source of information on most recent thinking about individualised long-term care of both dementia sufferers and their families. Key themes in Volume 2 are: the subjective experience of dementia the provision of care for family carers differing cultural perspectives of dementia the crucial importance of life-history information for understanding a person's reaction to their illness. Chapters on the search for an ethical framework and the best environment within which to provide care are particularly timely.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|79 pages
Models and theories
part II|68 pages
Interventions in care facilities
part III|40 pages
Interventions in the community
chapter 11|10 pages
Supporting informal care-givers of demented elderly people
part IV|96 pages
Interventions for the family
chapter 14|23 pages
Understanding the social context of families experiencing dementia
chapter 16|20 pages
Behind the facts
part V|68 pages
Environment, education and ethics