This essential textbook on dementia care introduces the knowledge that nurses need, including the evidence base for practice and the guidance to transfer this newly acquired knowledge into everyday practice. Each of the 25 chapters are written by experts in the field of dementia care and are grounded in thoroughly researched, up-to-date evidence, have a direct bearing to nurse practice, and use case studies to give examples of application of the evidence to practice.
It begins by introducing dementia as a diagnosis, a syndrome, and a set of diseases, signs and symptoms. It then deals with various principles that underpin dementia care, including person-centred care, behaviours that challenge, risk management, and understanding relationships affected by dementia. Finally, it assesses dementia care across a range of care settings, such as primary care, care homes, domiciliary care, acute hospital, and hospice services.
- Dementia Care Practice
- Person-Centred Care
- Rediscovering Elderhood
- Bradford dementia care series
- Learn About Dementia
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Early Signs of Dementia
- Dementia Care Therapies
- Early Stage Dementia
- Exercise
- Pain and Dementia
- Reminiscence and life story work
- Leadership and organisational change
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- Caring For A Loved One : Support and Guidance
- Early Signs of Dementia
- Learn About Dementia
- Early Stage Dementia
- Wellbeing and mindfulness
- Stress Management
- Grief and Loss
- Moving Into Care: Nursing Homes and Residential Care
- Younger Readers
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- Lived experience of Dementia
- Memoir
- Fiction
- Younger Onset Dementia
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Lewy body disease
- LGBTI and dementia
- Activities and Engagement
- Behaviour Change, Support and Management
- Culture, Religion and Spirituality
- Sex, Sexuality and Intimacy
- Book of the month
- Worried About Your Memory?
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- Audiobooks
- Reminiscence and life story work
- Exercise
- Technology
- Communication
- End of Life and Palliative Care
- Food, Recipes and Nutrition
- Risk reduction - Dementia
- How Dementia Friendly Is Your Home?
- Australian authors
- Meditation, Mindfulness & Self-care
- TOP PICKS
- Wendy Mitchell
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