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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
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.