Essentials of Dementia (eBook)

Everything You Really Need to Know for Working in Dementia Care

Robert Howard, Dr Shibley Rahman (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
240 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78450-754-1 (ISBN)

Infos

To provide high quality dementia care, professionals need to be both knowledgeable about dementia and skilled in the provision of care. This book is an introductory reference guide that will help students, professionals and practitioners develop their skills and expertise to better respond to the needs of people with dementia. It sets out information and advice on essential topics, research and evidence-based practice within dementia care in a clear, sensible way. Based on the standard course structure for higher and further dementia education, this wide-ranging textbook covers topics including dementia diagnosis, person-centred care and law, ethics and safeguarding. The new go-to book for the dementia curriculum, it is an invaluable tool for anyone wishing to improve the required core skills and values needed to care for those affected by dementia.

Autor

Dr Shibley Rahman graduated in neuroscience and medicine from Cambridge University. There he also completed his PhD in frontotemporal dementia, commencing a lifelong interest in the timely diagnosis of dementia. He also trained to postgraduate level in medicine, law and business. Shibley speaks regularly about dementia diagnosis and post-diagnostic care, researches wellbeing and advocates rights-based approaches. He is the author of Living Better with Dementia: Good Practice and Innovation for the Future, also published by JKP.Professor Rob Howard is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the Division of Psychiatry at University College London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2018
• Vorwort: Karen Harrison Dening
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b/w
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: AIDS • Alzheimer's disease • Assessment • Assistive Technology • Care Act • Care Home • care plan • Children and Families Act • cognitive decline • Co-morbidity • corticobasal degeneration • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease • Curriculum for Dementia Education • Delirium • dementia • Dementia Core Skills Education and Training Framework • dementia-friendly communities • Diagnosis • Disability • Downs Syndrome • Drugs • dysphagia • Equality Act • Fronto-temporal dementia • Health and Social Care Act • hearing loss • Higher Education for Dementia Network • Intellectual disabilities • Introduction • Law • Learning Disabilities • Lewy bodies • LGBT • life-story work • living well • medication • mental capacity act • mixed dementia • National Occupations Standards • Nurse • Palliative Care • Parkinson's Disease • Personalisation • person-centred care • pharmacological interventions • Posterior cortical atrophy • sensory stimulation • social health • Speech and Language • Student • Study skills • Textbook • touch therapy • validation therapy • vascular dementia • VERA Framework • VIPS Framework • well-being • Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
• ISBN-10: 1-78450-754-7 / 1784507547
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78450-754-1 / 9781784507541