The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Mace, Nancy L.,Rabins, Peter V.

ISBN 10: 1421422239 / ISBN 13: 9781421422237

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017

Spend Less, Read More. Codice articolo 5FHZ5N00066J

Riassunto:

Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs.

Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition includes new information on

devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia
strategies for delaying behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms
changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws
palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship
dementia due to traumatic brain injury
choosing a residential care facility
support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members

The central idea underlying the bookthat much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for themremains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Nancy L. Mace, MA, is retired. She was a consultant to and member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is professor emeritus of psychiatry and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was the founding director of its geriatric psychiatry program and the first holder of the Richman Family Professorship of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders. He is the author of Is It Alzheimer's? 101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia, also available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Titolo: The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring ...
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: New