1
/
of
0
Elliot - Wright Susan
When Someone You Love Has Dementia
When Someone You Love Has Dementia
Books
Regular price
$22.59 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$22.59 USD
Unit price
/
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Binding: Paperback
Description: Dementia affects more than 700,000 people in the UK; Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia affecting around 417,000 people in the UK and some four million in the US a. While dementia affects mostly older people some 17,000 young people also have dementia in the UK. There are treatments but no cure. Caring for people with dementia is a well - recognized burden but recently there have been moves to represent this in a more positive light emphasising people with dementia as individuals who deserve respect rather than as the challenge as which they have traditionally been viewed. Nevertheless for individual carers without enough support having a loved one with dementia often remains challenging. This book looks at practicalities and relationships including: Defining Alzheimer's and other dementias; Diagnosis; After diagnosis; planning for the future; Medications to help with symptoms such as memory problems wandering and aggressive behavior; Other therapies such as music therapy; Practicalities: coping with strange behaviour confusion memory problems. Outside help and services and how to access them; Later stages of dementia; issues to consider such as residential care financial arrangements wills and living wills and coping with being a carer.
Title: When Someone You Love Has Dementia
Author(s): Elliot - Wright Susan
Publisher: John Murray Press
Barcode: 9781847094032
Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/18/2016
Category: Coping With Illness & Specific Conditions
Description: Dementia affects more than 700,000 people in the UK; Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia affecting around 417,000 people in the UK and some four million in the US a. While dementia affects mostly older people some 17,000 young people also have dementia in the UK. There are treatments but no cure. Caring for people with dementia is a well - recognized burden but recently there have been moves to represent this in a more positive light emphasising people with dementia as individuals who deserve respect rather than as the challenge as which they have traditionally been viewed. Nevertheless for individual carers without enough support having a loved one with dementia often remains challenging. This book looks at practicalities and relationships including: Defining Alzheimer's and other dementias; Diagnosis; After diagnosis; planning for the future; Medications to help with symptoms such as memory problems wandering and aggressive behavior; Other therapies such as music therapy; Practicalities: coping with strange behaviour confusion memory problems. Outside help and services and how to access them; Later stages of dementia; issues to consider such as residential care financial arrangements wills and living wills and coping with being a carer.
Title: When Someone You Love Has Dementia
Author(s): Elliot - Wright Susan
Publisher: John Murray Press
Barcode: 9781847094032
Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/18/2016
Category: Coping With Illness & Specific Conditions