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Understanding Dementia: The Man With the Worried Eyes
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Richard Cheston, Michael Bender
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Product Details
- Author: Richard Cheston, Michael Bender
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- Binding: Paperback
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 616.83
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- EAN: 9781853024795
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- ISBN: 1853024791
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- Label: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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- Manufacturer: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 320
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 1999-09
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- Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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- Studio: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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- Title: Understanding Dementia: The Man With the Worried Eyes
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Product Description: Over the last ten years a number of new concepts have emerged within social psychology, gerontology, socio-linguistics and psychotherapy that present a challenge to the view of dementia as simply an organic illness. These ideas have led to service innovations including the development of support groups for people with dementia; the adaptation of psychotherapeutic approaches to this client group; and the development of methods of care evaluation from the perspective of the dementia sufferer. This book seeks to summarize these 'new' ideas thereby bringing together, for the first time, a wide range of critical thinking relating to old age and dementia. The authors aim to advance a psychological framework from which to understand the experience of dementia from the perspective of the dementia sufferer, so making intelligible the symptoms of dementia and setting out new avenues of care such as the need to adopt psychotherapeutic/counseling approaches as an integral part of care. Including background, clear argument and practical guidelines, this insightful and comprehensive study makes an important contribution to the currently emerging trend in dementia care towards person-centered work.
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Customer Reviews
A Person-Centered Approach to Alzheimer's and Dementia
In Understanding Dementia, Cheston and Bender provide a fascinating history of the Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. They make a convincing case that focusing on the neurological aspects of the disease both limits our understanding of the larger human picture and also breeds a sense of hopelessness and dependency among dementia sufferers. This history introduces the authors' main point: that psychological and social factors play a huge role in dementia. They vividly describe the experience of having dementia and point out ways in which informed psychological intervention can enhance quality of life.
Cheston and Bender are part of a movement among clinicians and researchers in the British Isles called a "person-focused" approach to dementia. This movement argues that the concepts we use to explain dementia influence the way we interact with people with dementia, and that, in turn, the way people with dementia are treated has a major impact on the severity with which dementia symptoms are expressed. Their book is aimed at people who treat dementia and those who set health care policy, but it is vividly written, understandable to the general public, and free of technical jargon. As a clinician who both works with dementia sufferers and their families and also trains psychotherapists in dementia care, I have recommended Understanding Dementia to clients and students alike.
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