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Demystifying Dementia

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The essential guidebook to help in every aspect of your journey, whether dementia affects your loved one, friend, or people you are caring for. This excellent book will be invaluable for everyone seeking to support the identity, independence and wellbeing of people living with dementia. -... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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The essential guidebook to helpΒ in every aspect of your journey, whether dementia affectsΒ yourΒ loved one, friend orΒ people you are caring for.Β 

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The essential guidebook to help in every aspect of your journey, whether dementia affects your loved one, friend, or people you are caring for.

This excellent book will be invaluable for everyone seeking to support the identity, independence and wellbeing of people living with dementia. - Ita Buttrose AC OBE

What is dementia?

Many of us live in fear of it, imagining the horror of losing our memories and our identities. But it does not need to terrify us. A good life can be lived with dementia. In this marvellously informative book, Demystifying Dementia, Rose Capp, aged-care specialist and educator, policy advisor and choir-director, tells us how. She shows us how to see the world from the perspectives of people living with dementia.

She reveals the importance of loving engagement, of finding the right words and the best forms of communication. And she discusses how popular culture can help our understanding of dementia. Through her choir, we witness the extraordinary power of music to transform lives.

Whether dementia affects your loved ones, your friends, or people you are caring for, this is an essential book to guide you in taking the mystery out of this condition.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922790811

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Rose has worked as an academic and film critic, has lectured and published in cinema studies, and is a longstanding executive member of the Film Critics Circle of Australia. As a registered nurse and dementia-care educator in the residential aged-care sector, she developed a special interest in and commitment to best practice dementia care. Rose works as a policy advisor at Dementia Australia and teaches in ageing and dementia studies at Flinders University. She lives in Melbourne.

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