
Dementia Rehabilitation
Evidence-Based Interventions and Clinical Recommendations
Description
Key Features
- 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.
Readership
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Rehabilitation as a new way of working with people with dementia
Lee-Fay Low and Kate Laver
1. Rehabilitation: a human right for everyone
Kate Swaffer
2. Cognitively-oriented treatments in dementia
Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Loren Mowszowski, Nicola T. Lautenschlager and Kay Cox
3. Communication interventions for people with dementia and communication partners
Sarah El-Wahsh, Penelope Monroe, Fiona Kumfor and Kirrie Ballard
4. Maintaining and improving physical function in dementia
Michele L. Callisaya, Susan W. Hunter and Manuel Montero-Odasso
5. Optimizing independence in activities of daily living
Kate Laver, Catherine Verrier Piersol and Rachel Wiley
6. Active and engaged: Maintaining leisure activities in dementia Claire M. C. O'Connor, Jacqueline Wesson, and Lindy Clemson
7. Rehabilitation to improve psychological well-being in dementia
Lee-Fay Low, Monica Cations, Deborah Koder and Annaliese Blair
8. Driving and community mobility for people with dementia
Theresa L. Scott, Jacki Liddle and Nancy Pachana
9. Supporting people with dementia in employment
David Evans, Carolyn Murray, Angela Berndt and Jacinta Robertson
10. Can buildings contribute to the rehabilitation of people living with dementia?
Richard Fleming
11. Supporting everyday functioning of people living with dementia: The role of care partners
Laura N. Gitlin and Michael Bruneau, Jr.
12. Physical comorbidities of dementia: Recognition and rehabilitation
Sue Kurrle
13. Improving functional independence: Dementia rehabilitation programs
Yun-Hee Jeon, Nicole Milne, Cassandra Kaizik and Barbara Resnick
Product details
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: October 20, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128186862
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128186855