When someone you love has dementia
By: Susan Elliot-Wright
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Overcoming common problems series
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781847094032; 9781847094049
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Family relationships; Patients; Dementia; Care
Description: Dementia affects more than 700,000 people in the UK; Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 417,000 people in the UK and some four million in the USA. While dementia affects mostly older people, some 17,000 young people also have dementia in the UK. There are treatments, but no cure. Caring for people with dementia is a well-recognized burden, but recently there have been moves to represent this in a more positive light, emphasising people with dementia as individuals who deserve respect, rather than as the challenge as which they have traditionally been viewed. Nevertheless, for individual carers without enough support, having a loved one with dementia often remains challenging.
Notes: Previous edition: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (page 113) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is dementia?; title: Diagnosing dementia; title: When the person with dementia is your partner; title: Treatments; title: Memory and behaviour; title: Physical; title: Outside help, benefits and services; title: Permanent residential care; title: Coping with being a carer.