Hopker (consultant psychiatrist, Bradford Community Trust, UK), while cautioning against overuse and abuse, details the current available (in the UK) drugs for use in dementia care. The drugs explored range from newer cognitive enhancing medicines to older anti-psychotics. The efficacy of the drugs are discussed within the context of complete care.
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Elder Care: What to Look For...What to Look Out For

By: Thomas M. Cassidy

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New Horizon Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 21424

ISBN: 0882821539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Former New York State Senior Investigator of the Medicaid Fraud Unit, Thomas Cassidy uses real cases to give important information to help the aging and their families find reputable living arrangements and avoid the terror of elder abuse. Utilizing professionals in medicine, law and finance, Cassidy offers a new fail-safe blueprint and a personal worksheet for the thousands who must now make crucial elder care decisions.
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Explorations in Dementia: Theoretical and Research Studies into the Experience of Remediable and Enduring Cognitive Losses

By: Bender, Michael

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley: November 2008

Seller ID: 21404

ISBN: 1843100401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Based on the findings of several in-depth research studies and on the author's long experience of working with people with dementia, this groundbreaking book provides fresh perspectives on the condition. Showing how evidence is lacking to support the model of dementia as a disease, the book explores the possibilities of psychological intervention for remediable or enduring cognitive losses.
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Outsmarting Alzheimer's: More Than 75 Foods, Exercises, Puzzles, and Tips to Keep Your Minds Sharp, Improve Your Memory, and Prevent Dementia

By: Kenneth S. Kosik

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Readers Digest: December 2015

Seller ID: 165225

ISBN: 1621452441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Outsmarting Alzheimer's: More Than 75 Foods, Exercises, Puzzles, and Tips to Keep Your Minds Sharp, Improve Your Memory, and Prevent Dementia

By: Kenneth S. Kosik

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Readers Digest: December 2015

Seller ID: 177977

ISBN: 1621452441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Outsmarting Alzheimer's: More Than 75 Foods, Exercises, Puzzles, and Tips to Keep Your Minds Sharp, Improve Your Memory, and Prevent Dementia

By: Kenneth S. Kosik

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Readers Digest: December 2015

Seller ID: 215638

ISBN: 1621452441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia: Care-based Therapy

By: Bonner, Chris

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley: June 2005

Seller ID: 21426

ISBN: 1843103494

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This practical book provides simple and imaginative ways to prevent and reduce stress-related behaviours in people with dementia in residential care. The author's approach is based on maximizing personal expression and fulfilment and recovering access to familiar, enjoyable and meaningful activities. He suggests strategies for managing common problems with feeding, bathing, toileting and sleep, looks at how to understand and cope with wandering, agitation and inappropriate sexual activity, and discusses ways of defusing aggressive behaviour. He also explains how to enhance care home environmen...
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The Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life

By: Gary Small, Gigi Vorgan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: December 2012

Seller ID: 79733

ISBN: 076117222X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Want to keep Alzheimer's at bay for years--ideally, forever? Prevention is the way, and this is the guide. Now in paperback and updated throughout, "The Alzheimer's Prevention Program" is essential for everyone with a family history of Alzheimer's, and for the 80 million baby boomers who worry whenever they forget someone's name. It's the book that shows how to strengthen memory and avoid everyday lapses. How to incorporate the top ten brain-protecting foods into your diet. How to cross-train your brain, exercising both the right and left hemisphere. And how to reduce stress, a risk factor for...
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The Alzheimer's Solution: How Today's Care Is Failing Millions- and How We Can Do Better

By: Kenneth S. Kosik MD, Ellen Clegg

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Prometheus Books: April 2010

Seller ID: 170314

ISBN: 1616142081

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

As the Baby Boomer generation moves into the ranks of the elderly in the next decade or two, the number of Alzheimer cases expected to develop will be staggering. Since current medical care cannot offer a cure, and even significantly effective treatment is at least ten years away, there is a pressing need for novel solutions to address the multifaceted issues raised by this devastating disease. This book offers a measure of hope and coping strategies for people facing Alzheimer's now or in the future. The authors propose the creation of community centers devoted to Alzheimer's. Here patients a...
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Understanding Dementia: The Man with the Worried Eyes

By: Richard Cheston, Michael Bender

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley: September 1999

Seller ID: 14167

ISBN: 1853024791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Understanding Dementia develops an integrated model of dementia which is based on social, political and psychological factors and, above all, which is person centered, focusing on the importance of the experience and emotions of the person with dementia. It brings together ideas on dementia from social and clinical psychology, psychotherapy and linguistics, and outlines the key theoretical issues and practical concerns in this expanding and significant field.Part 1 compares existing models of dementia, stressing the limitations of the organic model. The social model of dementia is also cons...
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Younger People With Dementia: Planning, Practice and Development

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub: January 1999

Seller ID: 37236

ISBN: 1853025887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New