The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease and other dementias
Record details
- ISBN: 1421441713
- ISBN: 9781421441719
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Physical Description:
xv, 341 pages ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 7th edition.
- Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 10. Getting outside help -- Help from friends and neighbors -- Finding information and services -- Kinds of services -- Having someone come into your home -- Adult day care -- Short-stay residential care -- Planning in advance for home care, day care, and respite care -- When the person who has dementia rejects the care -- Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself -- Locating resources -- Paying for care -- Should respite programs mix people who have different problems? -- Determining the quality of services -- Research and demonstration programs -- 11. You and the person who has dementia -- Changes in roles -- Understanding family conflicts -- Division of responsibility -- Your marriage -- Coping with role changes and family conflict -- A family conference -- When you live out of town -- When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help? -- Caregiving and your job -- Your children -- Teenagers -- 12. How caring for a person who has dementia affects you -- Emotional reactions -- Anger -- Embarrassment -- Helplessness -- Guilt -- Laughter, love, and joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and feeling alone -- Worry -- Being hopeful and being realistic -- Mistreating the person who has dementia -- Physical reactions -- Fatigue -- Illness -- Sexuality -- If your spouse has dementia -- If your impaired parent lives with you -- The future -- You as a spouse alone -- When the person you have cared for dies -- 13. Caring for yourself -- Take time out -- Give yourself a present -- Friends -- Avoid isolation -- Find additional help if you need it -- Recognize the warning signs -- Counseling -- Joining with other families : the Alzheimer's Association -- Support groups -- Excuses -- Advocacy -- 14. For children and teenagers -- 15. Financial and legal issues -- Your financial assessment -- Potential expenses -- Potential resources -- Where to look for the forgetful person's resources -- Legal matters -- 16. Long-term care arrangements -- Types of living arrangements -- Moving with the person who has dementia -- Nursing homes -- Finding a long-term care setting outside the home -- Paying for care -- Guidelines for selecting a long-term care facility -- Moving a person to a residential care facility -- Adjusting to a new life -- Visiting -- Your own adjustment -- When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility -- Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities -- 17. Preventing and delaying cognitive decline -- Usual age-associated changes -- Risk factors identify potential targets and possible approaches for decreasing the risk of dementia -- Cardiovascular factors -- Physical exercise -- Social and intellectual activity -- Diet -- Education -- Diabetes -- Depression -- Toxins -- Head injury -- Age -- Genetics -- Medications -- 18. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia -- Mild cognitive impairment -- Dementia -- Alcohol Use Disorder Associated Dementia -- Alzheimer Disease -- Amnestic (Korsakoff) Syndrome -- Cortico-basal Ganglionic Degeneration -- Depression -- The frontotemporal dementias -- HIV-AIDS --Lewy Body Dementia -- Parkinson Disease Associated Dementia -- Primary Progressive Aphasia -- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy -- Traumatic brain injury (TBI or head trauma) -- Vascular dementia -- Young or early onset dementia -- Other brain disorders -- Delirium -- Stroke and other localized brain injury -- Transient ischemic attack -- 19. Research in dementia -- Bogus cures -- Research in vascular dementia and stroke -- Research in Alzheimer Disease -- Structural changes in the brain -- Brain cells -- Neuroplasticity -- Neurotransmitters -- Abnormal proteins -- Abnormal proteins within brain cells -- Infection -- Nerve growth factors -- Transplants of brain tissue -- Metals -- Prions -- Immunological defects -- Head trauma -- Drug studies -- Epidemiology -- Down Syndrome -- Old age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Neuropsychological testing -- Brain imaging -- Keeping active -- Effect of acute illness on dementia -- Research into the delivery of services -- Protective factors -- One disease or many? |
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Altoona Area Public Library | MC 616.831 MAC (Text) | 33240005154011 | Making Connections | Available | - |
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