Dementia: An introduction for nursing, health and social care - Couverture souple

Pepper, Amy; Harrison Dening, Karen; Wolverson, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914962249 ISBN 13 : 9781914962240

Editeur : Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

Dementia is an accessible introductory textbook that will help to improve the quality of care provided to people with dementia. It is aimed primarily at nursing, health and social care students who are seeking to understand dementia and to become rounded practitioners.
Through clear explanations, examples, case studies and activities, the book will help you to support and care for people with dementia whenever you meet them in your practice. You will learn:

• What dementia is and how its various forms are diagnosed and treated
• How to provide person-centred care and how to support family carers
• How to apply key principles in communicating with a person living with dementia
• About key legal, ethical and safeguarding issues including capacity, decision-making and risk
• How dementia and comorbid conditions interact and what challenges comorbid conditions present in the care of people with dementia
• Best practice in end-of-life care and support for people with dementia and their families

Written by a team of highly experienced practitioners and researchers in dementia care, this book will help you to improve your understanding of dementia and to provide high-quality care and support to people with dementia and their families and carers.

Contents

About the authors; Abbreviations

SECTION 1: Introduction
1. Introduction to the book
Amy Pepper
2. What is dementia?
Karen Harrison Dening
3. Person-centred care and dementia
Amy Pepper

SECTION 2: The dementia care pathway
4. Diagnosis of dementia
Karen Harrison Dening
5. Medications used in dementia and their management
Karen Harrison Dening
6. Post-diagnostic support for people with dementia and their carers
Amy Pepper
7. Assessment for care and support
Amy Pepper
8. End-of-life care and dementia
Emma Wolverson

SECTION 3: Common issues in dementia care
9. Communication and dementia
Amy Pepper
10. Capacity and decision-making in dementia
Karen Harrison Dening
11. Risk and dementia
Amy Pepper
12. Distress in dementia
Emma Wolverson
13. Delirium and dementia
Karen Harrison Dening
14. Dementia and other health conditions
Karen Harrison Dening
15. Supporting family carers
Tia Cheung-Cook
16. Ethical issues in dementia care
Amy Pepper
17. Dementia policy and guidance
Karen Harrison Dening
18. Research and people with dementia
Emma Wolverson
19. Future challenges in dementia care
Madeleine Walpert

Index

A propos du livre

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The summer before I started my nursing degree was when I had my first experience of working with people with dementia. I had secured a part-time job at a nursing home, where I was tasked with cleaning and helping in the kitchens. I can vividly remember my first day, and the fear I felt wheeling my tea trolley into the lounge to serve the residents their tea and cake. Back then I had not heard the word ‘dementia’ but knew the residents in the home to be ‘senile’ (a term used for many years to describe people with dementia) and felt a great deal of apprehension about how to talk to them and how to respond, should they be confused or distressed. Over time I grew to know all of the residents as the unique and wonderful people that they were, and got a great deal of pleasure from talking to them as I cleaned their rooms and served them their food. It was this experience that led to me focusing my nursing career on the care of people with dementia and their families, a career that has thus far been rich and greatly rewarding. In that, my first role, and indeed as I moved through my nursing course, I did not have the benefit of a book which outlined all I needed to know about dementia, so I had to seek that information out myself, from other nurses I met who shared my passion for working with people with dementia, and through learning ‘on the job’. Such a book would undoubtedly have been hugely beneficial as I made my way through those early days of my nursing career.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914962249
• ISBN 13: 9781914962240
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible