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The Practical Handbook of Living with Dementia
Author(s): Isla Parker (Author, Editor), Richard Coaten (Author, Editor), Mark Hopfenbeck (Author)
- Publisher: PCCS Books
- Publication Date: 8 Sept. 2022
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 1915220165
- ISBN-13: 9781915220165
Book Description
The Practical Handbook of Living with Dementia is one of the selected titles for the Reading Well for dementia booklist created by The Reading Agency and chosen by those living with dementia, carers and health professionals. This wide-ranging book takes a person-centred approach to supporting the person and their families/carers to live with dementia and challenge the stigma attached to the condition. Divided into four parts, it starts with the voices of people with dementia themselves, as they describe their own experience and how they are living with the disease. It moves on to look at how the range of caring and support professions can help people living with dementia and their families plan and prepare for and cope better with their deteriorating condition. It then turns to practical aspects of living with dementia – dementia in the workplace, communication, safety and the role of technology and design in prolonging independence – and day-to-day considerations, such as managing insomnia and eating well. It ends with an inspiring section on the many imaginative ways people with dementia can be helped to discover and continue to enjoy cultural and creative activities that celebrate their lives and promote their abilities.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A rich recipe of ideas and thoughts on how to enable others to live with dementia. As we all should know, one size doesn’t fit all, and this book offers the holistic support for which many would be grateful. –Wendy Mitchell, author of Somebody I Used to Know and What I Wish People Knew About Dementia
A brilliant example of what can be achieved when those living with dementia, their carers and specialists collaborate… an important contribution to the literature of dementia and person-centred-care. –Rod Kersh, consultant community physician, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Far too often, people living with dementia and their carers are left with nothing to tell them how to move forward. This unique, invaluable book succeeds in filling the void. –Nori Graham, emeritus consultant in the psychiatry of old age, Vice President of the Alzheimer’s Society
About the Author
Isla Parker is a pen name. Isla is a freelance editor and writer who promotes the understanding of health issues and well-being. She undertook a degree in English, and found it interesting to study how literature explores illness. This led to Isla writing a novel about anorexia for teenagers called ‘Size Zero?’, that is loosely based on her own experience. Isla has co-edited The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices for PCCS Books and The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties (Pavilion Publishing). In her free time Isla enjoys playing the piano. She also takes part in an online writing group that has introduced her to writers from different countries. – Richard Coaten is a dancer and registered dance movement psychotherapist (RDMP) with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, where he was a Director on the Governing Council 2013–2016. He has spent the past 16 years working clinically as a DMP in an NHS older people’s psychiatric ward in West Yorkshire and in day centres. He is a national and international specialist in non-verbal, movement and dance-based practices with people living with dementia. He completed a doctoral thesis on dance movement psychotherapy and dementia from Roehampton University, and delivers workshops and conference presentations in Canada, the US and Europe, supporting the training of the next generation of DMPs. He has much published work to his credit and is on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed international journal Dementia. He also sits on the Board of the Creative Dementia Arts Network. – Mark Hopfenbeck is social anthropologist specialising in health and social policy, an assistant professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), visiting fellow at London South Bank University (LSBU) and individual partner at the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. At NTNU he teaches mindfulness and is a member of the Wellbeing and Social Sustainability research group. For the past 20 years, he has been teaching and supporting the implementation of the Open Dialogue approach in mental health care. Mark is co-editor of The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices and The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties. He is currently co-investigator on a large-scale programme of research into crisis and continuing mental health care within the NHS (the ODDESSI study).
