Understanding Dementia: The Man with the Worried Eyes

by Richard Cheston and Mike Bender

Book Overview

Over the last ten years a number of new concepts have emerged within social psychology, gerontology, socio-linguistics and psychotherapy which present a challenge to the view of dementia as simply an organic illness. These ideas have led to service innovations including the development of support groups for people with dementia; the adaptation of psychotherapeutic approaches to this client group; and the development of methods of care evaluation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853024791
• ISBN13: 9781853024795
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"