Dementia Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation helps individuals maintain and optimize independence. Historically, people with dementia have received little rehabilitation and the focus has been on care to replace lost function. Dementia Rehabilitation is a resource for health and social professionals, service planners, policy makers, and academics. The book makes a compelling case for rehabilitation for people with dementia, including the views of people with dementia and the research evidence. For each area of function, the research evidence and relevant theory is summarized, followed by practical information on clinical assessment, and delivery of therapies.

• Identifies rehabilitation as a human right for people with dementia.
• Reviews functions affected by dementia, including cognition, communication, and physical function.
• Outlines evidence-based strategies to maintain function and to delay decline.
• Describes how to maintain activities of daily living and leisure activities.
• Includes techniques to maintain self-identity and mood.
• Recognizes the importance of environment and care partners in supporting rehabilitation.
• Summarizes models of care for rehabilitation.

Researchers and clinicians in neuroscience and neurology interested in dementia

Preface

Introduction: Rehabilitation as a new way of working with people with dementia

1. Rehabilitation: a human right for everyone

2. Cognitively-oriented treatments in dementia

3. Communication interventions for people with dementia and communication partners

4. Maintaining and improving physical function in dementia

5. Optimizing independence in activities of daily living

6. Active and engaged: Maintaining leisure activities in dementia

7. Rehabilitation to improve psychological well-being in dementia

8. Driving and community mobility for people with dementia

9. Supporting people with dementia in employment

10. Can buildings contribute to the rehabilitation of people living with dementia?

11. Supporting everyday functioning of people living with dementia: The role of care partners

12. Physical comorbidities of dementia: Recognition and rehabilitation

13. Improving functional independence: Dementia rehabilitation programs