| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Editors' note; Introduction; Part I: Models and theories; 1. The concept of personhood and its relevance for a new culture of dementia care; Two Ways of Being and Relating; The I-It Mode; The Crisis of Postmodernity; Dementia and Personhood; The uniqueness of each person; Subjectivity; Relatedness; Reconsidering 'Normality'; References; 2. The dementias in a psychodynamic perspective; Introduction; The Psychodynamic Perspective; Examples |
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Adaptive Strategies and Coping BehaviourThe degree of cognitive reduction; C1 Dementia without quantitative signs of cognitive reduction; C2. Focal memory reduction; C3. General reduction with retained verbal performance; C4. General cognitive and verbal reduction; C5. General cognitive and verbal reduction with a aphasia, agnosia and apraxia; Adaptive strategies; Cerebral functioning; A Three-Dimensional View of Dementia; Rehabilitation and Care; The Life-Span Perspective; Conclusions; References; 3. Culture and dementia: effects on care-givers and implications for services |
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Culture and DementiaAfrican Americans and Care-Giving; Care-Giving for Dementia Relatives; Description of the Samples; Regression Analysis; Predicting Need for Assistance; Discussion; Summary; References; 4. Memory, emotion and dementia; Introduction; The Emotions; Cognition and Emotion; Emotion and Memory; Memory, Emotion and Dementia; Method; The setting; Ethical considerations; The sample; The methodology; Method of data collection; The approach used throughout the study; Analysis of data; Therapeutic considerations of the findings; General indications of well-being |
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Personal indications of well-beingThe final member of the group; Case-Study: Mr Robert Biddley (RB); Background information; The commencement of the interviews; Theoretical considerations of the case-study; Implications for Care-Giving; References; 5. Awareness in dementia patients and family grieving: a practical perspective; Introduction; The Sufferer; Awareness-context in dementia sufferers; Clinical example of a dementia patient's awareness-context; General consequences of the awareness-context in dementia; General implications for care-giving; Mr Wilkinson's message; Conclusion |
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The Family Care-GiverFamily grieving: coping with a beloved, missing person; General aspects of the grieving process; Pathological grieving in general; Examples of pathological grieving; The evidence of the loss in dementia; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Part II: Interventions in care facilities; 6. Practical management of frontal lobe dementia: institutional perspectives; Summary; Introduction; Clinical Characteristics and Diagnostic Considerations; Kluver-Bucy Syndrome; Management; Pharmacological Management; Non-Pharmacological Management; Environmental design and safety issues |
| Summary |
Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in hands on caring, or in planning care, for persons with dementia. Volume 2 of Care-Giving in Dementia provides a rich source of information on most recent thinking about individualised long-term care of both dementia sufferers and their families. Key themes in Volume 2 are: the subjective experience of dementia the provision of care for family carers differing c |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Gemma Jones, Bere Miesen |
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Print version record |
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Senile dementia.
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Psychotherapy for older people.
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Senile dementia -- Patients -- Care
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Community mental health services.
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Dementia
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Community Mental Health Services
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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PSYCHOLOGY / General
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PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
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Community mental health services
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Psychotherapy for older people
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Senile dementia
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Senile dementia -- Patients -- Care
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Gemma M. M., 1957-
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Miesen, Bère M. L., 1946-
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| ISBN |
9781317761655 |
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1317761650 |
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9781315830926 |
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1315830922 |
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9781317854333 |
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1317854330 |
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9781317854319 |
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1317854314 |
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9781317854326 |
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1317854322 |
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