A high percentage of patients with dementia experience debilitating pain. Untreated, it can result in mental and physical impairment; a higher frequency of neuropsychiatric symptoms such as agitation, depression, and sleep problems; and adverse events such as falls, hallucination, and even death. Wi[...]

Do you know someone who suffers from dementia? Have you been recently diagnosed with the condition and want to know more?Whether you have the disease or it is your loved ones who must contend with it, What You Should Know about Dementia gives you a comprehensive guide written in a nontechnical style[...]

Winner of the Society for Medical Anthropology's 2009 New Millennium Award Imagine yourself in advanced age, forced to depend on others for all your basic needs. What would you want to retain of your personal life? This question is at the heart of a set of case studies that examine the lives of nurs[...]

People with mid-stage dementia are served by special care units in long-term care facilities, although as these residents deteriorate, they are transferred out of the unit and into a general nursing home unit. These nursing homes are not equipped to deal with palliative needs of end-stage dementia c[...]

A daughter's longing love letter to a mother who has slipped beyond reach.
Just past seventy, Alex Witchel's smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she'd been raised: If something was broken, they wo[...]

Covering assessment to plan of care and discharge, Here's How to Treat Dementia is the only comprehensive, all-inclusive field manual therapists need while working with the dementia population. With this timely resource, speech-language pathologists can easily access all the information they need to[...]

Written by internationally recognized experts, Cognitive-Communication Disorders of Dementia: Definition, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Second Edition provides students and practicing professionals with cutting-edge information on the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive-communication disorders associat[...]

This book presents current research in the study of non-pharmacological treatment proposed in dementia care. Topics discussed include music therapy in dementia; predictors of effective support for carers of persons with dementia; computer-assisted spaced retrieval training of faces and names for per[...]

In a moment, your life changes forever. Your loved one gets the diagnosis of dementia and before you can comprehend the words, you are a caregiver. The doctor tells you to get your affairs in order and to enjoy life. What the doctor doesn't tell you is how lonely this journey is going to be. It feel[...]

Across the world, almost 50 million people have dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings, or friends. And while many countries are learning to cope with aging populations, dementia is becoming ever more of a challenge for many societies and[...]