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Dementia: Challenges and New Directions (Research Highlights in Social Work)

Dementia: Challenges and New Directions (Research Highlights in Social Work)

by SusanHunter (Editor)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

As a focus for academic and professional study, dementia has moved rapidly from the margin to the mainstream during the last decade. Understanding of this distressing condition, its aetiology and recognition, has become much more widespread and sophisticated. Building on such clinical knowledge, this book challenges the reader - to think ethically and in a person-centred way about the implications of dementia at a personal, planning and service provision level - to consider consumer perspectives, not only those of carers but also the much neglected views of individuals with dementia - to explore less well documented areas such as dementia and Down's Syndrome, depression and early onset dementia. In conclusion, the book illuminates selected topical developments in service provision such as community care, advocacy and aspects of the built and social care environment.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 200
 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 01 May 1997
ISBN 10: 1853023124
ISBN 13: 9781853023125

Media Reviews
`...any reader interested in knowing the current thinking of the major stakeholders in the application of social science to dementia need not look any further than this book.' -- British Journal of Clinical Psychology
`This is a valuable volume which explores many of the themes emerging as our understanding of dementia broadens...service managers and planners, hands-on carers and academics, will find the book helpful in navigating their way around the complex new world of dementia.' -- Mental Health Nursing
`...she devotes space to some of the less commonly considered aspects of dementia care, which makes this book especially refreshing...a collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking pieces...it will prove helpful in pushing further forward the frontiers of dementia care.' -- Dementia Care
`This collection of twelve papers provides ample evidence of the enthusiasm and good practice of those at the forefront of dementia care - Mary Marshall's paper on therapeutic design for people with dementia should be read by everyone responsible for commissioning all forms of accommodation for people with dementia...Malcolm Goldsmith's paper on hearing the voice of people with dementia takes readers to the limits of good practice.' -- Rostrum
`will take the reader swiftly to the key issue of attitudes towards those who suffer from dementia and putative strategies for improvement in this area.' -- Journal of Advanced Nursing
`This is an excellent review of many aspects of dementia from issues of service planning, ethics and advocacy to more `medical' aspects such as dementia in Down's Syndrome. The book is of interest to all disciplines active in the field of dementia and should probably be compulsory reading for old age psychiatrists!' -- Age and Ageing
`The book's underlying themes are the changing culture, increasing evidence of research and sophistication in care, and assertion of the rights of the person in legal, medical, social and environmental areas, described by the editor as a paradigm shift in understanding and working with people with dementia....a most welcome book for teachers, students and practitioners...` -- Issues in Social Work Education
Author Bio
Susan Hunter is a Lecturer in Social Work in the Department of Social Work at the University of Edinburgh.