The editor brings together the diverse research and personal experience of contributors from around the world to examine music therapy as a means of improving memory, health and identity in those suffering from dementia, particularly the Alzheimer's disease. It explores the issues which may arise in working with this group, such as coping with wartime memories, and shows how music therapy...
The editor brings together the diverse research and personal experience of contributors from around the world to examine music therapy as a means of improving memory, health and identity in those suffering from dementia, particularly the Alzheimer's disease. It explores the issues which may arise in working with this group, such as coping with wartime memories, and shows how music therapy facilitates and enables communication through sound and movement. The book is expected to be of interest to caregivers and families of dementia sufferers and to become an essential resource for music therapists and professionals caring for dementia sufferers. Topics covered include: an overview of music therapy literature relating to elderly people; working with words, the significance of narratives; the importance of singing with elderly patients; the problem of agitation and potential benefits from music therapy; experience from the Netherlands; improvisation as an assessment of early Alzheimer’s disease; creative music therapy; remembering and forgiving; working with images and recollection; and dance movement therapy.
Subject terms:
music therapy, older people, Alzheimers disease, dementia;
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(10), October 2000, pp.947-953.
Publisher:
Wiley
There is little information on dementia research in China in the international literature. This paper is an overview of studies on dementia conducted in China. Studies on dementia research in China were identified through a literature search, as well as through consulting Chinese psychiatrists and neurologists with expertise in the field. These studies were then reviewed. Finds that there is much...
There is little information on dementia research in China in the international literature. This paper is an overview of studies on dementia conducted in China. Studies on dementia research in China were identified through a literature search, as well as through consulting Chinese psychiatrists and neurologists with expertise in the field. These studies were then reviewed. Finds that there is much research activity in China in the field of dementia and further cross-cultural studies are useful to examine the cultural differences in various areas of dementia research.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(8), August 2000, pp.766-769.
Publisher:
Wiley
Looks at mental health legislation in relation to mentally incapable adults, including the case of R v Bournewood NHS Trust. Argues that it is now time to create legislation for mental health which combines both the common law's autonomy and the protection given by mental health legislation.
Looks at mental health legislation in relation to mentally incapable adults, including the case of R v Bournewood NHS Trust. Argues that it is now time to create legislation for mental health which combines both the common law's autonomy and the protection given by mental health legislation.
Subject terms:
law, older people, severe mental health problems, dementia;
Social Policy and Administration, 34(2), June 2000, pp.191-205.
Publisher:
Wiley
Discusses the reasons why caregiving in the community had ended for a sample of dependent older people, two-thirds of whom had dementia. Comparisons are made between the situation of a spouse caring for a partner and a daughter or son caring for a parent in a separate household. Spouses in the study had often sustained a greater burden before caregiving collapsed than had daughters or sons
Discusses the reasons why caregiving in the community had ended for a sample of dependent older people, two-thirds of whom had dementia. Comparisons are made between the situation of a spouse caring for a partner and a daughter or son caring for a parent in a separate household. Spouses in the study had often sustained a greater burden before caregiving collapsed than had daughters or sons. They were less likely, however, to have had support from the home care service. When caregiving in the community ended and the dependent older person entered a care home, family caregivers themselves often had a financial price to pay. Currently spouses have a legal liability to contribute to a partner's care costs. Because of the UK's means-testing rules, daughters and sons were often penalised because a parent's assets that they might have inherited had to be used to meet the care home costs.
Subject terms:
older people, poverty, admission to care, dementia;
Journal of Dementia Care, 8(3), May 2000, pp.19-21.
Publisher:
Hawker
In the first of a series of articles analysing the obstacles standing in the way of person-centred care, the author asks whether it is an unworkable notion.
In the first of a series of articles analysing the obstacles standing in the way of person-centred care, the author asks whether it is an unworkable notion.
Subject terms:
older people, person-centred care, social care provision, dementia;
Understanding socially disruptive behaviour in dementia is difficult. Many explanations offer neither solace nor practical help for families and carers, and treatment is often characterised by policies of control and containment. In writing this book, the author draws on his 15 years of clinical work with people who are challenging. He disputes the traditional medical model of dementia...
Understanding socially disruptive behaviour in dementia is difficult. Many explanations offer neither solace nor practical help for families and carers, and treatment is often characterised by policies of control and containment. In writing this book, the author draws on his 15 years of clinical work with people who are challenging. He disputes the traditional medical model of dementia and, consistent with the new culture of dementia care, asserts that behind the barrier of cognitive devastation it is possible to decipher cryptic messages showing that much behaviour is in fact meaningful not meaningless. Stokes contrasts the medical interpretation that sees anti-social behaviour as mere symptoms of disease with a person-centred interpretation that looks for change and resolution and focuses on challenging behaviour as needs to be met rather than problems to be managed. Contents include: dementia 'no longer a silent epidemic'; assessment of behaviour in dementia; the 'medical disease' model of dementia; a person with dementia; the environmental context of dementia; the needs of people with dementia; taxonomies of possible explanations; behavioural, ecobehavioural and functional analysis; resolution therapy; resolution: needs to be met, not problems to be managed; working with unmet need; and the challenge of confusion.
Subject terms:
needs assessment, person-centred care, challenging behaviour, dementia, ecological approach;
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(11), November 2000, pp.1013-1020.
Publisher:
Wiley
This U.S retrospective cohort study examined the association between resident characteristics and the development of wandering behaviour. Residents who had a short-term memory problem had pneumonia asked repetitive questions, had a long-term memory problem exhibited dementia constipation expressed sadness or pain and used antipsychotic medication were at an increased risk for developing
This U.S retrospective cohort study examined the association between resident characteristics and the development of wandering behaviour. Residents who had a short-term memory problem had pneumonia asked repetitive questions, had a long-term memory problem exhibited dementia constipation expressed sadness or pain and used antipsychotic medication were at an increased risk for developing wandering behaviour compared to residents without these characteristics. Results of this study may be useful in constructing causal theories for the development of wandering behaviour.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, nursing homes, older people, wandering, dementia;