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About this book
In her widely acclaimed Doing Things, Jitka M. Zgola offered practical and much-needed advice for those caring for persons with Alzheimer disease. Now, in Care That Works, Zgola shows how caregivers can better meet the demanding challenges of their job by building and improving their personal relationships with those in their care. Instead of simply prescribing approaches, Care That Works gives caregivers the information with which they can develop their own approaches, evaluate their effectiveness, and continue to grow in skill and insight.
Zgola explains that optimal dementia care involves three elements: a good relationship between the caregiver and the person who has dementia, a safe and nurturing environment, and meaningful activities. Evident throughout the book is Zgola's gift for compassionately portraying the difficulties faced by people with dementia and then suggesting ways to act in a manner that accords such people the respect and dignity they deserve. Topics that receive special attention include communicating with persons who have language deficits and coping with problem behaviorsātwo critical problems in dementia care.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 Relationships
- 2 Dementia: Definition and Consequences
- 3 Getting the Facts: History and Personal Information
- 4 Ongoing Appraisal of the Personās Cognitive Abilities
- 5 Functional Assessment
- 6 Preventing Challenging Behavior
- 7 Using Well That Which Remains: But I Thought You Said He Canāt Remember?
- 8 Responding to Problematic Behavior: A Process
- 9 Communication: The Heart of Relationships
- 10 Alzheimerās Disease and the Home: Issues in Environmental Design
- 11 Programming Activities
- 12 Why Groups?
- 13 When Is Breakfast? Any Time You Want It by Deborah A. Macdonald Connolly and Jitka M. Zgola
- 14 I Have Him DressedāWhat Now?: Organizing a Day at Home with a Cognitively Impaired Person
- 15 Visiting Well
- 16 Some Lessons That Come from Caring
- References
- Index