Dementia Care
Dementia Care Mapping
This Chapter discusses Dementia Care Mapping (DCM); a structured observational method for recording what a person with dementia is engaged in, and the quality of his or her response to that engagement...
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Administration, Office Procedures and Budget Issues
Guidelines for facilitating the efficient and smooth implementation and maintenance of a new volunteer program.
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Documenting Dementia Using Assessment Tools
This chapter explores the use of a variety of different geriatric assessment tools and discusses their purposes. It focuses particularly on assessment tools designed for emotional, mental and behavioural assessment...
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Dementia has Always been with Us
This chapter introduces dementia as a condition that has been present in societies for thousands of years. It provides an overview of the behaviour of those with dementia, how to care for people with dementia, and the rights of those in care...
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Communication
Effective communication plays a crucial role in all care giving, especially in the provision of care to people with dementia. This chapter presents strategies which will assist nurses to communicate better, especially with dementia patients...
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Wandering Behaviour in Aged Care Settings
Nurses who work with the elderly are familiar with those in residential care who are described as 'wanderers'. Episodes of wandering can cause significant stress to staff and families. This chapter provides a basic insight into this complex phenomenon...
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Functional Areas of the Cerebral Cortex
This map of the brain focuses on the functional areas of the cerebral cortext. Many areas are labeled, including the Precentral gyrus, the Occipital lobe, the cerebellum, the Medulla oblongata, etc.
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New Ways of Seeing Dementia
This chapter will review various perspectives from other chapters and integrate them into a new way of looking at dementia, which provides the underlying rationale for the care program outlined in the second part of the book...
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Making the Most of Being Together
This chapter covers a range of strategies for ensuring that interactions with someone with Alzheimer’s Disease go as well as possible...
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Prelims - Caring for People with Problem Behaviours 2nd Edition
Prelims:Preface to the second edition Introduction, Pre test & Full Contents list
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Living with Dementia
A nurses account of her experience when her partner developed dementia. The importance of early assessment. Depression and coping with the losses which accompany this organic brain disease.
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Incontinence
This chapter addresses the complex issue of incontinence and dementia and informs nurses about the different types of incontinence and how they can be managed, assessed and treated...
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Assessment and Management of Common Types of Incontinence
This interactive lecture discusses the assessment and management of common types of incontinence which occur in older people.
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Spiritual Care in Dementia - Nurturing the Human Spirit
In order to provide quality care there needs to be some understanding of the person's sense of reality. This reality can be detected through their behaviours and understood within the context of their whole life...
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When Words Fail
In this chapter, ways of coping when the other person either won’t or can’t speak are suggested. Advice and guidance is always given through the author’s experience with her own mother who had Alzheimer’s...
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Communicating with Fearful and Frustrated Old People
A look at three shades of hostility, encountered in the health care environment. How to deal with aggression and hostility when it occurs.
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Sudden Death: No Time to Say Goodbye
This chapter shows some gaps in the care of dying residents. Reflection on these episodes of care highlights the importance of clear communication among all carers...
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Pressure Sores and Wounds
A multidisciplinary approach to pressure care and wound management is essential in dementia patients. Pressure wounds are the most preventable chronic wounds in clinical practice and their impact can be significantly reduced by preventative measures...
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Matching Volunteers with Work Placements
This session will look at what considerations should be taken into account when deciding what work to allocate to individual volunteers.
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Documenting Behaviour and Emotion
All nurses experience and observe the behaviour and emotion of those in their care throughout their work day. This chapter guides nurses on how to accurately assess and document emotion and behaviour...
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