Dementia

Name: Dementia
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138859906
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Person-Centered Assessment and Intervention

Summary

Dementia explores person-centred care tailored for individuals with dementia, highlighting the crucial role of speech-language pathologists in addressing communication challenges faced by these individuals and their caregivers. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the evolution of dementia care, detailed diagnostic processes, and the cognitive and communication characteristics of dementias, particularly Alzheimer’s dementia. It guides readers through person-centred assessments and intervention strategies tackling cognitive, communicative, eating, swallowing, and behavioural symptoms, alongside essential topics such as reimbursement, documentation, quality of life, and end-of-life care.
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This book is ideal for healthcare professionals, speech-language pathologists, graduate students, and caregivers seeking evidence-based, person-centred approaches to dementia care and communication interventions.

Dementia provides a functional and behavioral approach to assessing and treating persons with dementia. It describes behavioral interventions and environmental strategies to improve quality of life from a proactive communication and memory basis.

Description

Person-centred care for persons with dementia has been developed and expanded over the last few decades. Speech-language pathologists are uniquely positioned to understand the striking impact that communication challenges have on persons with dementia and their caregivers, and can lead the charge to improve access to communication and participation.

Dementia serves as a starting point and reference manual for those who want to provide person-centred and life-enhancing services to persons with dementia. It aims to inspire the continued generation of quality research to demonstrate the value of cognitive-communication, behavioural, and caregiver interventions. This volume acts as a call to action for an interprofessional team of healthcare providers across healthcare settings to promote meaningful life engagement in persons with dementia using evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches.

This volume provides background on the evolution of caring for persons with dementia, and describes the diagnostic process for dementia syndromes, with a focus on the cognitive and communication characteristics of dementias, especially Alzheimer’s dementia. Its chapters cover the person-centred assessment process for persons with cognitive and communicative disorders of dementias, along with intervention approaches for the wide variety of cognitive, communicative, eating/swallowing, and behavioural symptoms and consequences of dementia syndromes. Additionally, it addresses reimbursement and documentation issues for various settings in which persons with dementia are seen, as well as the issues and challenges of quality of life and end-of-life care.

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"This volume should be on the shelf of every clinician who works in a medical setting, and will be a must-have textbook for graduate courses. It is unique in its combination of powerful and practical clinical examples with evidence-based assertions, all with a very clear focus on person-centred care." – Jacqueline Hinckley, Voices of Hope for Aphasia

"Understanding, assessing, and managing the problems of individuals with dementia and their caregivers is possibly the hottest topic in speech-language pathology today. This book is simply required reading." – Audrey L. Holland, University of Arizona

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138859906

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 December 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 40 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Ellen Hickey
Edited by Michelle S. Bourgeois

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 392

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Addiction & Recovery Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Ellen M. Hickey, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Associate Professor of speech-language pathology at Dalhousie University. Her teaching, practice, and research specialize in quality of life and treatment for persons with neurogenic communication disorders, including the cognitive-communicative disorders caused by dementia syndromes.

Michelle S. Bourgeois, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, is Professor of speech-language pathology at the University of South Florida. She specializes in interventions for persons with dementia and their caregivers. She has published numerous research articles, training manuals and CDs, and books on dementia interventions.