She also describes how to create an environment that supports parents with dementia. The book contains more than 50 activities, activity assessment forms, ideas for preventing caregiver burnout, and much more.
Caregivers also will learn how to care for themselves while caring for their loved one, thanks to the concise information and meaningful anecdote included in the book. Gwyther and Tina Adler.
This dementia book combines Dr. Readers will learn what they can expect after the diagnosis, tips to remember while providing care for their loved one, and how to help manage the symptoms of the disease. Readers also find themselves returning to the book for helpful information throughout the journey through dementia.
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The Story of Ketones. Smith has worn many hats including restaurateur, magazine publisher, and celebrity chef. This book shares lessons, tips, and hope for families that love and care for someone with dementia. Bell is considered a pioneer in dementia care and established one of the first dementia-specific adult day programs. Their dementia book provides a roadmap for using their relationship-centered approach to dementia care, which includes respect, empathy, support, trust, and humor to minimize challenging behaviors and create activities to promote engagement.
Caregivers often struggle with taking care of themselves while caring for a loved one with dementia.
Author Marguerite Manteau-Rao offers a compassionate guide for caregivers who struggle with managing their emotions and their stress levels while supporting and caring for a loved one with the disease. Manteau-Rao focuses on effective mindfulness-based dementia care that empowers caregivers to calmly and compassionately communicate with and care for loved ones while minimizing stress.
Other stories are written by patients who are in the early stages of the disease and want to explain what their experiences are like. The book is intended to be a resource for caregivers and loved ones of dementia patients who want to communicate and connect with them more easily; it provides creative activities and coloring pages to spur conversation and reflection and reduce stress. The book also includes helpful information on nutrition, exercise, sleep, and other activities to make interacting with and caring for dementia patients more meaningful.
This method empowers patients and their caregivers to improve the quality of life for the patient. Contented Dementia uses real-world examples and details tested methods to assist caregivers in providing better care for their loved ones. Author Jolene Brackey shares her practical advice and encouragement, along with a healthy dose of humor, throughout the book. He hopes to help others who have been diagnosed with dementia or a chronic illness to live life to the fullest by sharing stories, insights, and discussions with chronic disease experts in Dancing with Elephants.
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The book is full of real-life stories that emphasize the well-being approach to dementia care and explain how the treatment method makes life better for everyone affected by the disease. Marc Agronin is a nursing-home psychiatrist who wrote The Dementia Caregiver by drawing on his personal experiences in working with the elderly. It also provides an overview of the ways in which dementia changes the patient and resources caregivers can rely on as they care for their loved one.
Written for caregivers of dementia patients, The Dementia Concept contains three parts: Understand, which shares dementia signs, symptoms, and stages; Connect, which explores the core principles of connecting to dementia patients; and Engage, which helps readers apply principles of the Dementia Concept to specific events and interactions. Writer Joshua J. Freitas intends for the guide to be a resource for caregivers looking to improve life for the individuals for whom they care.
Her empathetic approach to dementia care includes helping caregivers use methods that ease emotional distress and solve behavioral challenges.
The DAWN Method specifically helps caregivers support dementia patients in ways that reduce fear, anger, and frustration. The book guides caregivers through the method and serves as a support for families and caregivers of those with dementia. In Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First , author Tom Kitwood breaks from traditional thinking about the disease and uses his research and experience to demonstrate that people with dementia can have a better quality of life. He looks at the individuals with the disease in order to present a complete picture of it.
This readable dementia book includes real-life situations and explores an alternative to the medical model of the disease. Family members and patients will gain the information they need to ask questions and hold discussions with doctors after reading this guide. Professor John Swinton uses his background in nursing, ministry, and healthcare chaplaincy to conduct research on the relationship between spirituality and disease.
In either form, the book takes an optimistic view of the disease and provides solutions for caregivers of individuals with dementia. Author Elaine C.
Pereira is an occupational therapist who became a caregiver to her mother when she was diagnosed with dementia. She weaves a funny, yet powerful story that includes her mistakes, insights, and successful intervention strategies with her mother to help readers in their own journeys with dementia.
Author Marianne Talbot cared for both of her parents when they were diagnosed with dementia. Talbot also includes tips and advice for caregivers of someone with dementia in addition to resources to help them through the stages of providing care and to understand they are not alone. The guide is appropriate for patients who want to understand their treatment. The book places emphasis on relating to patients where they are in their own reality and includes methods for enhancing communication between caregivers and patients.
The book also includes practical tips for coping with the diagnosis and adjusting to life with the disease, helping patients talk about their illness, facing the challenges of driving, and dealing with the progression of the disease. By: Meryl Comer. Narrated by: Meryl Comer. Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins. Publisher's Summary From New York Times best-selling author, Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer comes a profoundly intimate account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, one of today's most pressing - and least understood - health epidemics.
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