The Family Guide for Becoming Dementia Aware: Recognizing, Staging, and Providing Care for the Nine Most Common Dementias - Softcover

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Becoming Dementia Aware serves as a guidebook for family caregivers, helping them understand how dementia affects the brain and more. In her experience working with families, the author found that many do not know that dementia involves more than memory loss. This book details how dementia also affects the senses, balance, falls, and even the ability to fight infection.

Family members will find this dementia care guidebook useful in a wide variety of ways — from help with identifying the type of dementia affecting a loved one, to strategies that improve communication and assistance with daily activities. It is also a useful tool for planning future care needs.

Key chapters in the fully illustrated book contain:

• Five important questions family members need to understand and answer about their loved one.
• A complete overview of the Nine Common Forms of Dementia.
• An illustrated overview of the brain’s anatomy — what each lobe of the brain controls, which dementia affects which lobe and how damage to the lobes can be observed in behaviors, memory, bodily control, and more.
• A deep dive into memory — what it is, how it is formed, and how it is lost. This chapter helps caregivers understand how the brain’s ability to receive and store information affects behaviors and abilities.
• Easy-to-understand clinical definitions of the anticipated behaviors of dementia. This information can serve as a ready reference when caregivers face unexplained changes in a loved one’s behavior or abilities.
• A blueprint for assessing which stage of dementia a loved one is in. Several immensely helpful staging tools are included in the appendix to assist in care planning.
• Caregiver tips to help you improve how you assist a loved one with the activities of daily living (bathing, eating, toileting, dressing, transferring, and grooming). An entire chapter is devoted to challenging behaviors and how to improve in managing them, including the vital importance of assessing and controlling pain in people with dementia.

Becoming Dementia Aware can help family members determine if current behaviors are truly symptoms of dementia and which of the common forms of dementia may be affecting their loved one. It provides actionable tips, advice, and guidance to help family caregivers fully understand dementia and enable them to provide the best care, anticipate future needs, and become a more effective, less stressed-out caregiver. It is an essential resource for answering the many questions families have — questions that doctors often have little time to provide.

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