Social Work and Dementia
Subtitle: Good Practice and Care Management (Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781853029042
Subjects: Care of the elderly; Health systems & services; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Social Work; Great Britain; Social Science; Sociology; Social work with older people; General; Gerontology; Dementia; Psychiatric social work
First sentence: The purpose of this chapter is to outline the role of social work in helping with individuals' and families' experience of living with dementia, from the earliest signs that something is wrong to coming to terms with the death of the person they have been caring for.