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.

part I|79 pages

Models and theories

chapter 3|12 pages

Culture and dementia

Effects on care-givers and implications for services

chapter 4|19 pages

Memory, emotion and dementia

chapter 5|13 pages

Awareness in dementia patients and family grieving

A practical perspective

part II|68 pages

Interventions in care facilities

chapter 6|12 pages

Practical management of frontal lobe dementia

Institutional perspectives

chapter 8|8 pages

‘Snoezelen'

A new way of communicating with the severely demented elderly

chapter 9|22 pages

Psychosocial treatment for demented patients

Overview of methods and effects

part III|40 pages

Interventions in the community

part IV|96 pages

Interventions for the family

chapter 15|16 pages

Carer support groups

Change mechanisms and preventive effects

chapter 16|20 pages

Behind the facts

An insight into the burden on family carers of dementia patients

part V|68 pages

Environment, education and ethics

chapter 18|15 pages

In search of the best environment

Results of five experiments in the institutional organization of care for demented people

chapter 21|16 pages

Care-giving in dementia

The challenge of attachment