To provide high quality dementia care, professionals need to be both knowledgeable about dementia and skilled in the provision of care. This book is an introductory reference guide that will help students, professionals and practitioners develop their skills and expertise to better respond to the needs of people with dementia. It sets out information and advice on essential topics, research and evidence-based practice within dementia care in a clear, sensible way.
Based on the standard course structure for higher and further dementia education, this wide-ranging textbook covers topics including dementia diagnosis, person-centred care and law, ethics and safeguarding. The new go-to book for the dementia curriculum, it is an invaluable tool for anyone wishing to improve the required core skills and values needed to care for those affected by dementia.
- Dementia Care Practice
- Person-Centred Care
- About Dementia
- Dementia Care Therapies
- Pain and Dementia
- Exercise
- Leadership and organisational change
- Elderhood
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- Caregiving : Support and Guidance
- About Dementia
- Early Stage Dementia
- Communication
- Changes in behaviour
- Grief and Loss
- Relationships, Intimacy & Sexuality
- Residential Care
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- Lived experience of Dementia
- Lewy body disease
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Younger Onset Dementia
- LGBTI and dementia
- Eating and drinking well
- Activities and Engagement
- Culture, Religion and Spirituality
- End of Life and Palliative Care
- Younger Readers
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- Audiobooks
- Australian authors
- Memoir
- Fiction
- Risk reduction - Dementia
- Worried About Your Memory?
- Reminiscence and life story work
- Exercise
- Mindfulness & meditation
- Self-care & Wellbeing
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