Better Living with Dementia Book by Laura N. Gitlin
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Better Living with Dementia

Better Living with Dementia


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Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients with dementia. It presents the local and global challenges of these patients, also coupling foundational knowledge with specific strategies to overcome these challenges. The book examines the trajectory of the disease, offers stage-appropriate practices and strategies to improve quality of life, provides theoretical and practical frameworks that inform on ways to support and care for individuals living with dementia, includes evidence-based recommendations for research, and details global examples of care approaches that work.


About the Author: Laura N. Gitlin is a Distinguished University Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University, United States. Her research has specialized in developing, evaluating and implementing nonpharmacological approaches in dementia care, to support family caregiving, reduce functional disability, and enhance aging in place. Her research also examines adaptive processes in chronic illness and aging, including the use of assistive devices, and environmental modifications as well as health disparities in depression and mental health care . She is also an adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an honorary fellowship by the American Academy of Nursing, and the M. Powell Lawton Gerontological Society of America award.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780128119280
  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Academic Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 338
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 503 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0128119284
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jun 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies
  • Width: 152 mm


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