Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions provides evidence-informed approaches and future directions for supporting a higher quality of life for people living with dementia. Through a person-centered lens, this book equips care providers to better help people living with dementia align their expectations and hopes with the trajectories they can expect in their journey. It highlights the various transitions that those with dementia will experience and describes best practices for optimal adjustment to each. Topics covered include problem identification, driving cessation, loss of financial autonomy, acute hospital admission, moving to assisted living residences and long term care homes, and palliative and end of life care.
This is a must have reference for researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) as well as policy makers and other health and social care providers working with individuals with dementia.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Foreword - p. xi 7. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 8. Chapter 1. Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions - p. 1 9. Chapter 2. “It is not a disease, only memory loss”: exploring the complexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in a cross-cultural sample - p. 29 10. Chapter 3. Driving cessation in people with dementia - p. 53 11. Chapter 4. Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financial elder abuse - p. 87 12. Chapter 5. Hospitalization of persons with dementia - p. 109 13. Chapter 6. Change in informal support: creating a caregiving system - p. 137 14. Chapter 7. Transitioning from home in the community to an assisted living residence - p. 167 15. Chapter 8. Relocation to a long-term care home - p. 193 16. Chapter 9. A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-life - p. 213 17. Chapter 10. Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in dementia - p. 235 18. Index - p. 257
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions provides evidence-informed approaches and future directions for supporting a higher quality of life for people living with dementia. Through a person-centered lens, this book equips care providers to better help people living with dementia align their expectations and hopes with the trajectories they can expect in their journey. It highlights the various transitions that those with dementia will experience and describes best practices for optimal adjustment to each. Topics covered include problem identification, driving cessation, loss of financial autonomy, acute hospital admission, moving to assisted living residences and long term care homes, and palliative and end of life care.
This is a must have reference for researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) as well as policy makers and other health and social care providers working with individuals with dementia.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Foreword - p. xi 7. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 8. Chapter 1. Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions - p. 1 9. Chapter 2. “It is not a disease, only memory loss”: exploring the complexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in a cross-cultural sample - p. 29 10. Chapter 3. Driving cessation in people with dementia - p. 53 11. Chapter 4. Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financial elder abuse - p. 87 12. Chapter 5. Hospitalization of persons with dementia - p. 109 13. Chapter 6. Change in informal support: creating a caregiving system - p. 137 14. Chapter 7. Transitioning from home in the community to an assisted living residence - p. 167 15. Chapter 8. Relocation to a long-term care home - p. 193 16. Chapter 9. A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-life - p. 213 17. Chapter 10. Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in dementia - p. 235 18. Index - p. 257
