Dementia
The Neuropsychology of Dementia: A Clinician’s Manual
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An up-to-date clinical guide for healthcare professionals on the assessment, diagnosis and management of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), including the role played by neuropsychology in the diagnostic process.
Dementia Grief Therapy: A Guide for Health Professionals
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This book expands on evidence-based, person-centered dementia care practice by offering the therapeutic essentials of a novel grief-based therapy including trauma informed yoga practices, and Dementia Grief Therapy (DGT).
LGBTQ+ People and Dementia: A Good Practice Guide
Our Price: $34.42 (with free UK delivery)
Bringing together research, policy and the voices of LGBTQ+ people with dementia, this good practice guide highlights the importance of a person-centred approach.
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Dementia: Current Perspectives in Research and Treatment
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This book explores how our conception of dementia has changed since its initial discovery, taking in advancements in knowledge that translate into better ways to manage the condition.
Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness: Trusting the Process
Our Price: $58.09 (with free UK delivery)
Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness offers a fresh approach for professionals working with older individuals by employing new and exciting custom methodologies in psychodrama, particularly for clients with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Dementia and Psychotherapy Reconsidered
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Dementia and Psychotherapy Reconsidered is applicable not only to psychotherapists and counsellors, but to clinicians and families who are supporting people living with dementia post-diagnosis and want to find new ways of talking about their experiences.
Dramatherapy With Elders and People With Dementia: Enabling Developmental Wellbeing
Our Price: $55.94 (with free UK delivery)
The book takes the reader through the dramatherapy experience of a group of people who display a ‘feeling intelligence’; a quality that softens distress at vanishing words and clouded memories. Unique in its approach, not only to dramatherapy with elders and people with dementia, it presents an essential validation of older people’s life stage development.
How to Help Someone With Dementia: A Practical Handbook
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Through the book you will: understand dementia and the symptoms and behaviours that people with dementia can present with; learn communication skills and strategies that can help when caring for a person with dementia; and explore compassion-based care, develop resilience and improve your wellbeing.
Dementia Rehabilitation: Evidence-Based Interventions and Clinical Recommendations
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Dementia Rehabilitation is a resource for health and social professionals, service planners, policy makers, and academics. The book makes a compelling case for rehabilitation for people with dementia, including the views of people with dementia and the research evidence.
Language in Dementia
Our Price: $66.70 (with free UK delivery)
This book undertakes a comprehensive examination of language and communication in individuals with cognitive impairment and dementia.
Promoting Resilience in Dementia Care
Our Price: $32.18 (with free UK delivery)
This practice-focussed resource shows dementia care professionals how to harness resilience in their daily practice when working with people living with dementia. Nurturing and developing resilience can hugely improve quality of life for people living with dementia, and as such it is an important tool for practitioners to provide targeted, meaningful support that fits into the lives of people with dementia and care partners.
Psychodynamic Approaches to the Experience of Dementia
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Psychodynamic Approaches to the Experience of Dementia: Perspectives from Observation, Theory and Practice demonstrates the impact of healthcare approaches that take into account not only the practical needs but also the emotional experience of the patient, their partners, families and friends, lay carers and professional staff.
Music and Dementia: From Cognition to Therapy
Our Price: $120.51 (with free UK delivery)
This book outlines the current research and understanding of the use of music for people with dementia, from internationally renowned experts in music therapy, music psychology, and clinical neuropsychology.
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Namaste Care for People Living with Advanced Dementia: A Practical Guide for Carers and Professionals
Our Price: $40.87 (with free UK delivery)
Namaste Care is a therapeutic approach to caring for those living with advanced dementia, focused on improving their quality of life through a simple, soothing and rewarding process. This step-by-step guide is for anyone looking to translate the principles of the Namaste Care approach successfully and professionally into a home or care setting, with an emphasis on the value of volunteers in the community in implementing this.
Holding Time: Human Need and Relationships in Dementia Care: Human Need & Relation
Our Price: $31.21 (with free UK delivery)
Informed by the author’s work in dementia care and palliative care as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, Holding Time contributes to an increasing recognition of the importance and value of relationship-centred care in this field. Most of the book is written ethnographically and unfolds as a narrative. It also includes the real words of staff and residents from the care homes in which she conducted observations.
The Montessori Method for Connecting to People with Dementia: A Creative Guide to Communication and Engagement in Dementia Care
Our Price: $36.57 (with free UK delivery)
This book shows how the Montessori method – with its arts-based, person-centred and positive focus – can help caregivers connect to people with dementia.
A Clinician’s Guide to Non-Pharmacological Dementia Therapies
Our Price: $52.73 (with free UK delivery)
The book outlines a range of non-pharmacological therapies clinicians can adopt in their daily practice and sets out information and advice on each therapy and how to implement them in practice, illustrated with case studies and practical examples and drawing on the author’s own clinical work.
Dementia: An Attachment Approach
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Written in accessible language, Dementia: An Attachment Approach will be of great interest to people living with dementia, as well as those working with, and caring for, people with dementia in a variety of contexts including nurses, doctors and psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, social workers, health and social care workers, family carers and psychotherapists, as well as creative arts practitioners and policymakers.
Sharing Sensory Stories and Conversations with People with Dementia: A Practical Guide
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Sensory Stories contain just a few lines of text, and are brought to life through a selection of meaningful sensory experiences. They have been shown to be highly effective in helping care for people with dementia, and can enable them to engage with their memories, life history and more, in a way that would otherwise not be possible.
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
Our Price: $59.19 (with free UK delivery)
This supportive guide for psychotherapists, counsellors and other professionals working with older people, addresses the growing demand for mental health services for older adults.
Understanding Behaviour in Dementia that Challenges, Second Edition : A Guide to Assessment and Treatment
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This revised second edition guide to assessment and treatment of behaviours that challenge associated with dementia includes these latest developments along with new sections on what have traditionally been considered controversial topics. The new chapters cover issues including:- End of life care- Use of therapeutic dolls – Lies and deception- Physical restraint during personal care- Racism towards care staff. With a particular emphasis on non-pharmacological approaches, this book details the range of behaviours common in individuals with dementia, along with the most effective assessment and treatment techniques for health care professionals.
Embracing Touch in Dementia Care: A Person-Centred Approach to Touch and Relationships
Our Price: $38.72 (with free UK delivery)
This book restores trust in the power of touch, demonstrating the vital role it plays in supporting personhood, relationships and wellbeing, and challenging the barriers preventing staff from using touch in meaningful ways.
End of Life Care for People with Dementia: A Person-Centred Approach
Our Price: $36.57 (with free UK delivery)
This is an essential resource for anyone who wishes to provide compassionate, person-centred care for a person with dementia as they approach the end of life, including care staff, nurses, social workers and related professionals.
Life Story Work with People with Dementia
Our Price: $50.58 (with free UK delivery)
This evidence-based book explains the many benefits of life story work, with practical guidance for introducing it in a variety of settings.