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This book provides a comprehensive research-based source of material, which focuses on the important issue of dementia and family care. It critically examines how dementia is defined, diagnosed and 'treated' and provides a new environmentally focused approach to this challenging and growing issue for nurses and other care givers.

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• Contributors(p. v)
• Foreword(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. x)
• Section 1 Approaches to practice
• 1 Constructing dementia(p. 3)
• 2 Valuing people with dementia(p. 22)
• 3 Policy and practice in dementia care(p. 35)
• Section 2 Person-centred practice
• 4 Working with people in the early stages of dementia(p. 51)
• 5 Managing language and communication difficulties in Alzheimer's dementia: the link to behaviour(p. 69)
• 6 Counselling people with dementia(p. 86)
• 7 Addressing the physical care needs of people with dementia(p. 103)
• 8 Palliative care for people with dementia(p. 114)
• 9 Remembering and forgetting: group work people who have dementia(p. 136)
• 10 Positive communication with people who have dementia(p. 148)
• 11 Younger people with dementia: coming out of the shadows(p. 164)
• Section 3 Practice system
• 12 Helping families cope with dementia(p. 187)
• 13 Developing ethnically sensitive and appropriate dementia care practice(p. 202)
• 14 Supporting and supervising in dementia care(p. 213)
• 15 Elder abuse and people with dementia(p. 225)
• 16 Maintaining quality in dementia care practice(p. 240)
• Index(p. 257)