Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s disease Books
Health Professions Press,U.S. The End-of-Life Namaste Care™ Program for People
Book SynopsisThis innovative care program blends nursing care and meaningful activities to promote peaceful and relaxing end-of-life experiences for older adults with late-stage dementia. The first program created specifically for this hardest-to-serve population, Namaste Care also meets the latest regulatory guidelines for person-centered activity programming. The author has developed the program to be adaptable to individual as well as group settings, from nursing home to bedside at home. With this practical guide, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living settings, memory care communities, and hospices can easily and affordably implement a Namaste Care program not only to improve resident quality of life but also to increase family involvement and strengthen staff morale. New to the revised edition: Detailed descriptions of Namaste Care (NC) Group Program and the NC Individual Program, and instructions for implementing NC in any setting More case studies and stories to illustrate creative uses of Namaste Care and effective results Further international focus, incorporating programs and perspectives from Australia, the U.K., Europe, as well as Singapore and Indonesia. In-depth description of the physical setting and supplies needed for an effective NC program. Completely updated references Trade Review“Voted ‘Book of the Year, in 2013 by the American Journal of Nursing, Professor Joyce Simard’s 3rd edition of Namaste Care has been eagerly awaited. Full of the wisdom and practicalities of its original purpose for people isolated with advanced dementia, it has been expanded to include individual care at the bedside in the last days of life and at home. It remains a 'must.'" - Jo Hockley, RN, Ph.D., OBE Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh“It is with great pleasure and honor that I endorse Joyce Simard’s 3rd edition of The End-of-Life Namaste Care Program for People with Dementia. Namaste began at the Vermont Veterans’ Home in Bennington, VT over 20 years ago, and was developed to meet the unique needs of people with advanced dementia who often fall through the cracks in long-term care. This sacred programs embraces the person’s humanity and ensures that the person living with advanced dementia or end of life issues fully lives until their last breath.” - Christina M. Cosgrove, LICSW, Behavioral Health Director, Vermont Veterans’ Home, and designated Namaste Care International Champion in the U.S.Table of ContentsAbout the AuthorForeword, by Rishi JawaheerPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The BeginningPART I: THE NEED FOR NAMASTE CAREWhat is Namaste Care?End-of-Life Dementia Care and HospicePART II: NAMASTE CARE IN PRACTICEBeginning the Namaste Care DayThe Namaste Care Group ProgramThe Namaste Care Individual ProgramThe Physical SettingPlanning and Implementing Namaste CarePART III: DEATH AND DYING CAREQuality of Life at the End of LifeMaking the TransitionAfter a DeathAppendixesNamaste Care Nursing SuppliesNamaste Care Activity SuppliesNamaste Care ResourcesNamaste Care Activities of Daily Living ChecklistDementia Bill of RightsPain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) ScaleReferencesIndex
£38.21
Health Professions Press,U.S. Living Normally with Dementia: One Care Home's
Book SynopsisLiving Normally with Dementia tells the successful story of Dagmarsminde, a small innovative nursing home in Denmark with a remarkable and life-affirming approach to dementia care.The philosophy and lived experiences of this model home are illustrated with real examples and vignettes from day-to-day care. The founder and staff offer a replicable approach to helping their residents with dementia enjoy a richer, more normal-feeling life than residents receiving the “usual care” in most settings. The staff, in turn, enjoy the professional rewards of following their calling to this work with confidence and compassion.Person-centered practices define the daily routine and include a focus on good nutrition, contact with nature, healthy physical activities, and as much independence in activities of daily living as possible. The needs and progress of each resident are paramount.From the time a new resident arrives at the home until the person has died, the goal of care is to help residentsThrive in a home where they are heard and respected at all timesHave a medication-free existence as much as possibleRemain independently mobile by walking without assistive devices unless absolutely necessaryEnjoy family-style dining with staff and residents togetherExperience ordinary sights and sounds of nature—from household pets to small farm animals, garden flowers, and nearby woodsThis book invites leaders, direct care partners, students, and families to immerse themselves in a home that operates very differently from traditional, institutional nursing homes. The goal is to help readers around the world envision new, more satisfying ways of working with people living with dementia and to explore new approaches in their own care homes.Table of Contents Preface Introduction to Dagmarsminde About the Author Acknowledgments DedicationPart I. The Rehabilitating and Stabilizing Phase The Move: Crossing the Threshold to a New Life Aesthetics: Balancing the Mind with DÉcor The Craft of Nursing: Good Judgment and Hands-on Care The Call to Service: The Selfless Workplace Tapering Off Medication: Purification and Stability Exercise: Active Residents Seize the Day Assistive Devices for Mobility Working with Energies: A Dynamic Balance The Circadian Rhythm: Open-eyed Residents The Routine: Together from Morning till Night Sanatorium Practices The Great Outdoors: Sensing at the Highest Level Nourishing Body and Mind Continuing Family Traditions Under Observation: Looking After the Health of Our Residents Part II. The Weakening Phase Swallowing Problems: When Eating Solid Foods is Difficult Approaching the End of Life Part III. The Final Phase Working with the Family The Dying Process The Wake
£36.51
Health Professions Press,U.S. The Validation Breakthrough: Simple Techniques
Book SynopsisValidation is a successful way of communicating with older adults with Alzheimer’s-type dementia and responding to their challenging behaviors. The Validation method helps reduce stress, enhance dignity, and increase happiness for both the elder and the caregiver. Since its inception in 1989, Validation has helped thousands of professional and family caregivers improve their relationships with residents and loved ones with dementia by acknowledging older adults’ expressed feelings rather than focusing on disorientation and confusion.Professionals will learn how to: Build relationships with residents based on empathy and compassion Understand and deal with challenging behaviors Interpret nonverbal cues to promote better communication Implement Validation in your own care setting through the experiences shared by Authorized Validation Organizations around the world The Validation method is easy to learn, and positive results can be seen in both residents and caregivers. Residents express less anger and anxiety, decreasing the need for chemical and physical restraints. Residents communicate more freely and more often. Residents often move better and experience an improved sense of self-worth. Staff members express a greater sense of fulfillment at work and feel better prepared for handling difficult situations. Families visit more often. The Validation Breakthrough is an essential resource for professionals in all settings serving adults who may be confused and disoriented, including assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, hospice, home health care, adult day services, and family care settings.NEW to this edition: Updated language and explanations for the Phases of Resolution Revised case studies reflecting contemporary settings and issues Restructured content for clarity and ease of use
£38.21
Health Professions Press,U.S. Getting Dementia Care Right: What's Not Working
Book SynopsisIt is widely acknowledged that today’s dementia care needs improving, so what is holding it back? Dementia consultant Anne Ellett draws on her extensive experience in nursing homes and assisted living communities to explore answers to this question and guide professionals to real-life solutions. Filled with examples from care communities implementing innovative ideas and model programming, Ellett explores what holds back improvements in care—misinformed attitudes, staff limitations, organizational pressures, surplus safety concerns, and more—and then describes both large and small strategies for overcoming barriers and producing big changes in the lives of residents with dementia. Whether you’re a memory care professional, a person living with dementia, or a family member, you will find inspiration to focus on what can be done to help each person with memory loss have a good day, every day.Table of ContentsIntroduction Dementia Care–Why It Matters What Would We Want? Frozen Actions, Reactions, and Interactions Do No Harm Measure the Meaningful Advocacy The Real Goal of Care Best Practices For People Living with Dementia and Their Supporting Partners
£34.16
Springer Verlag, Singapore Current Thoughts on Dementia: From Risk Factors
Book SynopsisThis informative book discusses the latest research on the risk factors and therapeutics in dementia. WHO calls dementia a public health priority. Dementia manifests as a group of symptoms associated with decline in memory or other thinking skills and is severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities. It occurs frequently among elderly people, but it is not necessarily part of the normal aging process. The book has been divided into two broad sections. The first section reviews the risk factors involved in developing dementia, including various medical conditions, lifestyle choices, as well as genetics. The latter section describes various therapeutic interventions in dementia. Although there is no known cure for dementia, this book underlines the current treatment strategies that could momentarily reduce the symptoms and improve the quality of life of the patients. This book highlights the global effort to find better ways to halt the progression of dementia and develop novel therapeutic strategies. The book would be an interesting read for advanced graduate students and researchers working in the field of neuroscience, genetics, and medicine. It will generate good interest to neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, cardiologists, internal medicine practitioners, epidemiologist, and public health workers.Table of ContentsRisk Factors § Apolipoprotein E (APOE) § Histone modifications, demethylation, and microRNA regulation § Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) § Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) § Bridging integrator 1 (BIN1) § Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) § Leptin signaling § Insulin signaling § Autophagic dysfunction § Ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction § Circadian dysfunction § Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress § Depression § Normal pressure hydrocephalus § Antiphospholipid antibodies § Sex hormones § Changes in blood factors § Infection-induced systemic inflammation § Microbiota § Abdominal visceral fat § Atypical microvascular morphology § Plasma exosomes spread § Changes in visual cortex § Obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension § Environmental pollutions Therapeutic Interventions § NMDA receptor antagonists § Calcium channel blockers § Catecholamine § Statins § Immunotherapy § Quitting smoking § Physical activity § Diet and nutrition § Natural products as promising drug candidates § Nanotechnological applications § Electroacupuncture § Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation § Transcranial direct current stimulation § Reminiscence therapy § Reality orientation therapy § Bright-light therapy § Snoezelen multi-sensory stimulation § Behavioral therapy § Brain-computer interface applications § Music therapy § Hypoxic-hyperoxic training § Cognitive rehabilitation § Cognitive creativity § Stem cell research
£179.99
Obelisco Dieta de Prevencion Y Tratamiento del Alzheimer,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Dementia
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£42.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dementias Early Diagnosis and Evaluation
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£56.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Atlas of Alzheimers Disease
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Wandering the Wards
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Alzheimers Disease
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MIT Press Ltd The Day after Yesterday
Book SynopsisA deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.A graphic designer, a writer, a public servant, a retired PhD, a 29-year-old with early-onset Alzheimer’s. These are just some of the 50 million people living with dementia who share their deeply personal stories with Joe Wallace in The Day after Yesterday, a powerful collection of portraits and personal stories that humanizes the millions of people living with the disease. Each story in this poignant volume offers a unique and powerful lesson—not just about how to live with a terminal illness, but how to do so with resilience and dignity.Dementia is often a taboo subject with limited public awareness or discourse. A diagnosis can become a mechanism for segregating those affected from society, making it easier to see only the label and not the individual, which, in turn, makes it easier to ignore the bur
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Little, Brown Spark Grain Brain The Surprising Truth about Wheat
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Remember
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice.“Using her expertise as a neuroscientist and her gifts as a storyteller, Lisa Genova explains the nuances of human memory”—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of How the Mind WorksHave you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can''t for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you''re over forty, you''re probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer''s or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren''t designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make, or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn''t mean it''s broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human. In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. You''ll learn whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds (like a passcode) while others can last a lifetime (your wedding day). You''ll come to appreciate the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer''s (that you own a car). And you''ll see how memory is profoundly impacted by meaning, emotion, sleep, stress, and context. Once you understand the language of memory and how it functions, its incredible strengths and maddening weaknesses, its natural vulnerabilities and potential superpowers, you can both vastly improve your ability to remember and feel less rattled when you inevitably forget. You can set educated expectations for your memory, and in doing so, create a better relationship with it. You don''t have to fear it anymore. And that can be life-changing.
£21.59
Johns Hopkins University Press Remembering Home
Book SynopsisChaudhury encourages health care professionals and activity leaders to embrace a personhood-affirming mode of care and provides tools and information for nonprofessionals who want to connect with, understand, and better appreciate people with dementia.Trade ReviewExceptionally well written and provides both an informed and compelling argument for selfhood affirming care and a practical guide on enriching the practices of residential care facilities. -- George S. Alexopoulous, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry 2009 Every long-term-care facility should make it available to staff members. Highly recommended. Choice 2009 Accessibe, and engaging... Remembering Home is predominantly geared towards providing advice for health care professionals and those engaged in caring for memory-challenged adults in health care facilities... is it also use for those family members and friends with loved-ones suffering from dementia. -- Jacqui Poltera, Ph.D. Metapsychology 2009 A sound reminder to all caregivers that all people have pasts, and those pasts are part of who they are today and create, in some ways, their future... Remembering Home: Rediscovering the Self in Dementia is a tool for families to remain connected to loved ones who are experiencing loss of memory... This person-centered approach to affirming older adults with dementia demonstrates the importance of sharing the past with the hope that it will make the journey of the future more meaningful and pleasant for all. -- M. Jean Keller, EdD Activities, Adaptation and Aging 2010Table of ContentsPreface1. Self and Dementia: Reframing the Relational Landscape2. Home: A Pathway to the Self in Dementia3. Home as a Setting for Lived Experience4. ''That Is My Home'': Home Stories and Guided Conversations5. Home Work: Putting Home Stories to Work in Dementia CareReferencesIndex
£33.75
Thomas Nelson Publishers lucha por mi vida Softcover Fighting for My Life
Book SynopsisLa enfermera retirada Jamie Tyrone, luego de recibir un diagnóstico de un 91% de riesgo de desarrollar Mal de Alzheimer debido a sus genes, se asocia con el Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, un destacado neurólogo, y crean una guía sencilla y útil para explorar los riesgos de las pruebas genéticas y vivir una vida productiva a la sombra del Alzheimer.
£13.29
Tyndale House Publishers Memory Rescue
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The Experiment LLC Keep Your Brain Stronger for Longer: 201
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£14.99
Rockridge Press The Ultimate Memory Activity Book: 130 Puzzles
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£20.89
Hidden Path Publishers Reversing Alzheimer's: How to Prevent Dementia
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£17.09
Myers Education Press The Last Ten Days - Academia, Dementia, and the
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Myers Education Press Reflecting on Autoethnographic and
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Myers Education Press Reflecting on Autoethnographic and
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£33.25
Barlow Publishing Save Your Mind Seven Rules to Avoid Dementia
Book SynopsisThis practical and informative book says that you can avoid dementia and the loss of control that accompanies this brain disease by following the author's seven specific rules to exercise the brain and body. From the winner of Canada's most prestigious science award, The Canada Gairdner Awards, this book also offers an authoritative and easy-to-understand explanation of how the brain works and what happens when dementia afflicts it. Author Dr. Antoine Hakim tells about some of the mind-blowing research that shows how elderly nuns maintained their cognitive abilities even though their brains displayed the physical signs of Alzheimer's. He argues that you can build up a defensive system, a cognitive reserve, to protect your mind if you have a stroke. It's even possible to reverse the early signs of dementia. Save Your Mind is an essential book for anyone who wants to take proactive steps to prevent dementia and the loss of mental control.
£22.94
Theologischer Verlag VOR Dem Spiegel: Selbstsorge Bei Demenz Im
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El fin del alzheimer. El programa / The End of
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£17.95
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Los primeros sobrevivientes del Alzheimer / The
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Oceano Clínica Mayo. Alzheimer Y Otras Formas de
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£26.96
Editorial Sirio Alto Al Alzheimer
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Edaf Antillas Todavia Estoy Aqui
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Editorial Terracota Alzheimer: Una Experiencia Humana
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