Full Description
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.
Contents
Part 1: About the Person 1. How the Brain is Affected2. Lived Experiences of Individuals with Dementia3. Breaking the Cycle of Despair4. Making Life Better for Individuals Living with Dementia
Part II: About Caregivers5. Family Member as Care Partner6. How We Can Support Families7. Formal caregivers: Role of the Inter-professional Team
Part III: About Home and Community Environments8. The Physical Home Environment - A Neglected Therapeutic Context9. Living in the community
Part IV: About Social Systems and Policy 10. Settings and Services of Care11. Global Efforts and National Plans12. Transforming Dementia care
Part V: Taking Action13. Developing and Implementing an Action Plan14. Putting It All Together
