Better Living With Dementia: Implications For Individuals, Families, Communities, And Societies - 9780128119280

Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients with dementia. It presents the local and global challenges of these patients, also coupling foundational knowledge with specific strategies to overcome these challenges. The book examines the trajectory of the disease, offers stage-appropriate practices and strategies to improve quality of life, provides theoretical and practical frameworks that inform on ways to support and care for individuals living with dementia, includes evidence-based recommendations for research, and details global examples of care approaches that work. Offers evidence-based strategies for making life better for dementia patients at home, in the community, and in health care and service settings Provides an overview of the disease pathology, current diagnostic criteria, and the stages and trajectory of the illness Includes intervention strategies to support formal caregivers Looks at the role of environmental design and technology in dementia care

• | Author: Laura N. Gitlin, Nancy Hodgson
• | Publisher: Academic Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 338 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 0128119284
• | ISBN-13: 9780128119280