Format:
1 online resource (282 pages)
ISBN:
9780128175675
Content:
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions provides evidence-informed approaches and future directions for supporting a higher quality of life for people living with dementia. Through a person-centered lens, this book equips care providers to better help people living with dementia align their expectations and hopes with the trajectories they can expect in their journey. It highlights the various transitions that those with dementia will experience and describes best practices for optimal adjustment to each. Topics covered include problem identification, driving cessation, loss of financial autonomy, acute hospital admission, moving to assisted living residences and long term care homes, and palliative and end of life care. This is a must have reference for researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) as well as policy makers and other health and social care providers working with individuals with dementia. Emphasizes empowerment and quality of life for all those living with dementia Explores strategies for managing the ups and downs of the dementia journey from diagnosis to end of life Recommendations are couched in evidence and extensive experience of the authors
Content:
Front Cover -- Evidence-Informed approaches for managing dementia transitions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions -- 2 - ``It is not a disease, only memory loss'': exploring the complexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in a c.. -- 3 - Driving cessation in people with dementia -- 4 - Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financial elder abuse -- 5 - Hospitalization of persons with dementia -- 6 - Change in informal support: creating a caregiving system -- 7 - Transitioning from home in the community to an assisted living residence -- 8 - Relocation to a long-term care home -- 9 - A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-life -- 10 - Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in dementia -- Index -- Back Cover --
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780128175668
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780128175668
Language:
English
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