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By
Trevor Adams, Lecturer, European Institute of Health and Medical Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Charlotte Clarke, Research Fellow, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Description
This book provides a comprehensive research-based source of material, which focuses on the important issue of dementia and family care.
It critically examines how dementia is defined, diagnosed and "treated" and provides a new environmentally focused approach to this challenging
and growing issue for nurses and other care givers.
Audience
General Practitioners; Practising nurses working with the elderly
Contents
Introduction: a Partnership Approach to Dementia Care / Dementia Care Partnerships: Knowledge, Ownership and Exchange / Developing Partnership
in Dementia Care: a Discursive Model of Practice / Western Medicine and Dementia: a Deconstruction / Ethical Dilemmas in Dementia Care
/ Towards a Partnership in Maintaining Personhood / Communication in Dementia Care: a Partnership Approach / This Is Your Life: Research
Paradigms in Dementia Care / Keeping a Distance: the Reactions of Older People in Care Homes to Confused Fellow Residents / the Family
Caring Experiences of Married Women in Dementia Care / the Long Goodbye: the Experience of Loss in Husbands Who Care for a Wife with
Dementia / the Early Experience of Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for Partnership and Practice / Young-Onset Dementia / Professional
Practice with People with Dementia and Their Family Carers: Help or Hindrance? / Developing Partnership in the Work of Community Psychiatric
Nurses with Older People with Dementia / Attitudes Towards Dementia Care: Education and Morale in Health-Care Teams / Partnership in
Dementia Care: Taking It Forward.
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Paperback, 380 pages, publication date: JAN-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2278-4
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2278-0
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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