The Dementia Care Partner's Workbook: A Guide for Understanding, Education, and Hope - Couverture souple

Shaw, Edward

 
9781617222740: The Dementia Care Partner's Workbook: A Guide for Understanding, Education, and Hope
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1617222747 ISBN 13 : 9781617222740
Editeur : Companion Press, 2019

Synopsis

Empowering the loved ones and caretakers of those with memory loss, forms of dementia, or Alzheimer's. The Dementia Care Partner's Workbook is a support group manual as well as a self-study guide for care partners' of a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia such as vascular, frontotemporal, Parkinson's, or Lewy body. It provides 10 lessons for support group participants or individuals who desire independent study, as well as a free downloadable leader's manual valuable to professional or lay leaders from secular or faith-based organizations. Each lesson offers understanding, education, and hope and covers topics that include the different types of dementia, brain structure and function, stages of dementia, changing relationships and grief, emotional and mental health challenges, communicating love, attachment loss and problematic behaviors, care at home versus residential care facility placement, wellness and self-care, existential and spiritual issues, important questions for the dementia doctor and elder law attorney, and helpful resources for the journey. The leader's manual provides instructions ranging from establishing a support group program to a step-by-step guide on how to run individual sessions.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Edward G. Shaw is a physician and mental health counselor. He was also the primary caregiver for his wife, Rebecca, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease at age 54 in 2008, and died at age 62 in 2016. Dr. Shaw is the founder and director of the Memory Counseling Program in Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health's Sticht Center.

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Éditeur
Companion Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1617222747
ISBN 13 
9781617222740
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
305
Coordonnées du fabricant
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