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Creating successful dementia care settings: volume one; understanding the environment through aging senses
- Authors:
- BRILLER Sherylyn, et al
- Publisher:
- Health Professions Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
This work examines the critical features of formal care settings that either support people with dementia or create unmanageable barriers to their ability to function successfully. The present volume describes how Alzheimer's disease exaggerates or confounds already compromised sensory perceptions. It also contains practical suggestions to compensate for losses and improve communication, orientation, and enjoyment
Keeping it in the family: caregiving in Australian-Greek families
- Authors:
- MORSE Carol A., MESSERMERI-KIANIDIS Voula
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 34(3/4), 2001, pp.299-314.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Family-based caregiving refers to the daily provision of help to a co-resident family relative with the usual activities of daily living, custody and protection of a dependent relative at risk of self-injury, and support of a person with physical, developmental and/or mental disability or frailty due to ageing. Many reports from western studies refer to the caregiving burdens, stress and strains. A common view of migrant peoples is that they 'look after their own' to a greater extent than do English-speaking groups. A study was carried out with 300 Australian-Greek families in Melbourne where 150 were providing family-based caregiving, and these were age and gender matched with friends or acquaintances who had no such duties. Most care was provided by women. A wide range of disabilities and illnesses were receiving help and care in the caregiving families among care recipients aged from childhood to advanced old age. Distinct evidence of caregiving burden was found to a significant degree. Gender differences were apparent in the type of disorders managed, in the perceived severity of caregiving duties provided and in the total range of activities engaged in. The ethno-specific community organisations and extended family networks played little part in providing assistance to caregivers which challenges the myths of a close-knit migrant community looking after its own.
Learning disabilities and dementia: a pilot therapy group
- Author:
- ROSEWARNE Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 9(4), July 2001, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Describes the development of a support group, involving a range of psychotherapeutic approaches, for people with the dual disability of learning disabilities and dementia.
Creating successful dementia care settings: volume three; minimising disruptive behaviours
- Authors:
- PEREZ Kristin, PROFFITT Mark, CALKINS Margaret
- Publisher:
- Health Professions Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 147p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
This work examines the critical features of formal care settings that either support people with dementia or create unmanageable barriers to their ability to function successfully. This volume reveals that many difficulties stem from the care environment itself and can be resolved by developing individualised solutions and adaptations which can improve the quality of life of patients and staff alike.
Creating successful dementia care settings: volume four; enhancing identity and sense of home
- Authors:
- MARSDEN John, et al
- Publisher:
- Health Professions Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 183p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Examines the critical features of formal care settings that either support people with dementia or create unmanageable barriers to their ability to function successfully. This volume explains how a home- like setting contributes to the smooth operation of a facility for people with dementia.
Creating successful dementia care settings volume 2: maximising cognitive and functional abilities
- Authors:
- BRILLER Sherylyn, et al
- Publisher:
- Health Professions Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 201p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Examines the critical features of formal care settings that either support people with dementia or create unmanageable barriers to their ability to function successfully. This volume demonstrates how to avoid unnecessary helplessness. Simple changes to the facility environment can help to support remaining skills. Step by step processes are identified.
Down's syndrome and dementia: briefing for commissioners; February 2001
- Authors:
- TURK Vicky, DODD Karen, CHRISTMAS Michelle
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 10p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The high risk of dementia for people with Down's syndrome is a major focus of the Growing Older with Learning Disabilities (GOLD) programme at the Foundation for People with Learning Difficulties. This briefing aims to provide appropriate information to families, professionals and people with learning difficulties themselves. Contents include: requirement for commissioning services; checklist of competencies; clinical description; requirements for care management; further information.
A clear voice, a clear vision: the advocacy reader
- Editors:
- MULLINS Gillian, WOOD Patrick
- Publisher:
- UK Advocacy Network
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 93p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Advocacy is important to people with a wide range of problems and the experiences of advocacy are reflected in a variety of settings. This report describes some of the most important issues concerned in the establishment and successful running of advocacy projects as well as the principles involved and standards of good practice. Contents include: advocacy and the Mental Health Act; consideration in advocacy provision; advocacy in different situations; running the advocacy project; standing together; employees and volunteers.
Misplaced and forgotten: people with learning disabilities in residential services for older people
- Authors:
- THOMPSON David, WRIGHT Sarah
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 21p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The reason why people with learning disabilities enter residential homes for older people is largely unrelated to their own ageing. Most people coming from living with family move because of their relative's ageing or death. Others move because of closure of services. The people with learning disabilities in the homes for older people lead very impoverished lives with few opportunities to get out. There are financial incentives for local authorities to use older people's services rather than developing a good quality learning disability provision. Until this addressed, the common practice of misplacing people with learning difficulties and then forgetting them will continue.
Quality in later life: rights, rhetoric and reality: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, (30th:Stirling; 2002, 31 August-2 September)
- Editors:
- TESTER S, ARCHIBALD C, ROWLINGS C, TURNER S
- Publisher:
- Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 294p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
These conference papers explore the issue of quality in later life, the factors that affect older people's experience and their understanding of what matters to them. Gerontologists have much to contribute both to analysis and the promotion of quality in old age. This contribution continues to develop the means by which older people, including those with significant mental or physical disabilities can make themselves participate in the debates by defining their own experiences and what makes a difference to them.