Dementia Care : A Practical Manual Paperback / softback
by Jonathan (Consultant in the Psychiatry of Old Age, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, UK) Waite, Rowan (Consultant Physician and Geriatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals, UK) Harwood, Ian (Manager, Broxtowe Specialist Dementia Care Team, Nottingham, UK) Morton, David (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Integrated Community Mental Health Team for Older Connelly
Part of the Oxford Care Manuals series
Paperback / softback
Description
Dementia can be a distressing condition, for the sufferer, and for families and other carers.
Management of dementia is never easy, and involves facing some unpleasant problems and difficult choices.
The right approach and expertise can minimise the unpleasantness and make dementia manageable, while inexperienced or inexpert management has the potential to cause unnecessary distress and disability, mis-directed resources, frustrated care staff, unduly long periods spent in hospital and premature care home placement. Dementia Care is a practical manual for health and social care professionals in their encounters with people with dementia.
It covers a wide range of information in a short, easily-accessible handbook format and broadly follows the journey of a person with dementia from first presentation to health or social services, through problems and their management, to the final stages of the illness.
The book is rooted in the extensive experience of the authors in managing dementia in the community, in hospital and care homes and hopes to make the necessary expertise available and accessible in a form that will be useful to the whole range of medical, health and social care staff looking after people with dementia and their families.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:438 pages, 5 black and white line drawings,12 black and white half tones and a 4-page colour plate s
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199228829
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:438 pages, 5 black and white line drawings,12 black and white half tones and a 4-page colour plate s
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199228829
