The way in which dementia is understood and treated is changing, with a growing focus on the individual's experience and person-centred approaches to care. Introducing a new model of dementia care that reflects on the role of a person with dementia within a community and their relationships, this guide for professional and family caregivers demonstrates how to facilitate positive relationships for peaceful living.
By understanding the cognitive and physical challenges that older adults with dementia face, caregivers can practice empathic care that affords people with dementia increased freedom of expression and independence. Included here are techniques for conflict resolution that enable people with dementia to be active and self-initiating in times of distress and disruption. Looking at the basics of respect, empathy, and mindfulness, this book also provides hands-on training for employing these virtues in practice with a number of exercises to help achieve the goal of peaceful independent living.
- 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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