Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-817566-8 (ISBN)
This is a must have reference for researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) as well as policy makers and other health and social care providers working with individuals with dementia.
Professor Linda Garcia’s research interests focus on the impact of physical, social, technological and clinical environments on the quality of life of individuals with neurological disorders, especially dementia. She is interested in developing interventions that include approaches based on human interactions having worked previously as a Speech-language pathologist. She is currently the director of the University of Ottawa LIFE Research Institute, which takes an interdisciplinary, life trajectory approach to aging. Dr. McCleary is a Professor in the Department of Nursing and Graduate Program Director of the Master of Applied Gerontology Program in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. Dr. McCleary is also Adjunct Member, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto. She is a mental health and gerontological nurse who works with research teams and service providers on health and social care for older people and their families. Her research and practice emphasize improving dementia care services as well as improving gerontology and geriatrics education in the health professions. She is a past president of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association. Dr. Drummond is an epidemiologist with interests principally in care for dementia in primary care, primary care surveillance and research, the public health-primary care interface, and health care for vulnerable communities.
1. Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions
Neil Drummond, Linda Garcia and Lynn McCleary
2. “It is not a disease, only memory loss: exploring the
complexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in a
cross-cultural sample
Sharon Koehn
3. Driving cessation in people with dementia
Bonnie M. Dobbs
4. Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financial
elder abuse
Stacey Wood, Peter A. Lichtenberg, Muncuran Purewal and Linda Garcia
5. Hospitalization of persons with dementia
Katherine S. McGilton and Geneviève Lemay
6. Change in informal support: creating a caregiving system
Melanie Deist and Abraham P. Greeff
7. Transitioning from home in the community to an assisted
living residence
Lynn McCleary, Mackenzie Powell and Willian Dullius
8. Relocation to a long-term care home
Annie Robitaille
9. A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-life
Genevieve Thompson and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths
10. Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in
dementia
Linda Garcia, Neil Drummond and Lynn McCleary
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | San Diego |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-12-817566-4 / 0128175664 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-817566-8 / 9780128175668 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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