Care-Giving in Dementia 2

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 cultural perspectives of dementia the crucial importance of life-history information for understanding a person's reaction to their illness. Chapters on the search for an ethical framework and the best environment within which to provide care are particularly timely.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138358134
• ISBN13: 9781138358133
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"