Dementia in Close-Up

by Miesen,Bere

• ISBN13: 9780415128841
• ISBN10: 0415128846
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Dementia in Close-Up is a clear and practical guide to dementia and the world of the dementia sufferer.Bere Miesen assumes no medical or specialist knowledge and uses first hand accounts and real-life examples to examiners on patterns of behaviour and responses of sufferersand their carers. He focuses on the complex and varied relationships between the sufferer, their family and professional carers, and explores the conflict that can sometimes be engendered by dependency, fear and sustained closeness.Going beyond the purely medical descriptions of dementia, Dementia in Close-Up strives to give families and health professionals the means to form caring and rewarding relationships and to help everyone involved.

Table of Contents

Translator's foreword	vii	(4)
Acknowledgements	xi
PART I Dementia in close-up: the process	1	(102)
1 Introduction to Part I	3	(3)
2 If only I had known that	6	(8)
3 What does dementia involve?	14	(17)
4 Seeking a handhold	31	(27)
5 In search of safety	58	(24)
6 Families and a `missing' person	82	(15)
7 Summary of Part I	97	(6)
PART II Dementia in close-up: caring in practice	103	(123)
8 Working with persons with dementia	105	(6)
9 How family members first notice dementia	111	(14)
10 From working to caring	125	(12)
11 Adoption	137	(13)
12 Power	150	(17)
13 Transference and counter-transference	167	(15)
14 Intimacy and sexuality	182	(16)
15 Aggression	198	(15)
16 A basis for tomorrow	213	(13)
Related reading	226	(1)
Index	227