Dementia Care: A Practical Photographic Guide

✍ Scribed by James Grealy, Helen McMullen, Julia Grealy(auth.)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 214
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Dementia care: a practical photographic guide is a unique illustrated guide to caring for people with dementia in care homes. It presents practical prevention and management techniques for resistance to care in common activities of daily living, explores cognitive loss, physical loss and sensory loss in dementia, and examines means of improving communication with those with dementia to enhance their understanding of their environment and improve their compliance in care.Content:
Chapter 1 The Person (pages 3–47):
Chapter 2 The Care Staff (pages 51–64):
Chapter 3 The Environment (pages 67–95):
Chapter 4 The Interaction (pages 99–144):

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