36-Hour Day A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
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Nancy L. Mace, M.A., is currently teaching dementia care internationally. She has been a consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, and to the Alzheimer's Association, and she was an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry, director of the psychogeriatric unit, and director of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Both a guide and a legend.<br />—Bard Lindeman, <i>Chicago Tribune</i>
Thoroughly updated to incorporate new information on the latest research, several drugs that hold promise, and genetic aspects of Alzheimer's. The heart of the guide remains unchanged, focusing on helping families cope with this progressive and irreversible disease. Besides tips on how to care for the demented during various stages of the disease (for example, place a picture of a toilet on the bathroom door), the text discusses the different kinds of help available and how to seek it. Financial and legal issues are well covered, while sections on nursing homes and other alternative living arrangements provide advice and practical suggestions . . . Highly recommended.<br />—<i>Library Journal</i>
<i>The 36-Hour Day</i> remains a chilling book written in a formal style; its virtues are its comprehensiveness and its sober realism.<br />—Paula Span, <i>New York Times</i>
Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preface to the First Edition
1 Dementia
2 Getting Medical Help for the Impaired Person
3 Characteristic Problems of Dementia
4 Problems in Independent Living
5 Problems Arising in Daily Care
6 Medical Problems
7 Problems of Behavior
8 Problems of Mood
9 Special Arrangements If You Become Ill
10 Getting Outside Help
11 You and the Impaired Person as Parts of a Family
12 How Caring for an Impaired Person Affects You
13 Caring for Yourself
14 For Children and Teenagers
15 Financial and Legal Issues
16 Nursing Homes and Other Living Arrangements
17 Brain Disorders and the Causes of Dementia
18 Research in Dementia
App. 1. Further Reading
App. 2. Organizations
App. 3. Locating Your State Office on Aging and State Nursing Home Ombudsperson
App. 4. Nursing Home Residents' Rights
Index