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Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies (in English)
Laura N. Gitlin; Nancy A. Hodgson (Author)
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Academic Press
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Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies (in English) - Laura N. Gitlin; Nancy A. Hodgson
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Synopsis "Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies (in English)"
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. Weaves research evidence and theories with practical know-howIdentifies support strategies for home, community, and health care settingsProvides stage-appropriate strategies relative to dementia severitySummarizes dementia pathology, diagnosis, and progressionConsiders the changing needs of both the individual with dementia and family and formal caregiversOffers evidence-informed recommendations for research, practice, policy, and how to make things better at home, in the community, in healthcare and service settings, and through national policiesProvides local and global exemplars of what worksProvides case vignettes to illustrate key points with real examplesContains brief conversations with national and international experts
