Reducing stress-related behaviours in people with dementia : care-based therapy / Chris Bonner ; illustrated by Wayne Madden.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (92 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1846421411
- 9781846421419
- 1280349484
- 9781280349485
- Dementia -- Patients -- Care
- Dementia -- Patients -- Psychology
- Dementia -- Patients -- Institutional care
- Stress in old age
- Long-term care facilities
- Dementia -- therapy
- Residential Facilities
- Stress, Psychological -- complications
- Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Déments -- Soins
- Déments -- Psychologie
- Déments -- Soins en institutions
- Stress chez la personne âgée
- Établissements de soins de longue durée
- extended care facilities
- Geriatric Nursing
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia
- MEDICAL -- Neurology
- Dementia -- Patients -- Care
- Dementia -- Patients -- Institutional care
- Stress in old age
- 616.8/3 22
- RC521 .B66 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-87) and index.
Stress factors -- Results of stress -- Preventing/minimizing stress -- Find out as much as you can about the person -- Apply appropriate practices to minimize stress -- Addressing stress-related responses -- Hostile verbal and physical responses -- Verbally agitated behaviours -- Wandering -- Intrusiveness, rummaging or picking behaviour -- Managing feeding problems -- Interventions to improve feeding -- Managing inappropriate sexual activity -- Managing sleep disturbance -- Factors affecting sleep in elderly people with dementia -- Interventions to improve sleep -- Importance of teamwork, training and support.
This practical book provides simple and imaginative ways to prevent and reduce stress-related behaviours in people with dementia in residential care. The author's approach is based on maximizing personal expression and fulfilment and recovering access to familiar, enjoyable and meaningful activities. He suggests strategies for managing common problems with feeding, bathing, toileting and sleep, looks at how to understand and cope with wandering, agitation and inappropriate sexual activity, and discusses ways of defusing aggressive behaviour. He also explains how to enhance care home environmen.
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