Basic hands-on hints and ideas on how to care for someone suffering from dementia.

This book gives nursing students a robust foundation for understanding and developing skills to work with people experiencing dementia.

Looks at the role nurses play when working with people who have dementia, and their relatives. This book builds on person-centered and relationship-centered approaches to develop a systemic guide for practice that focuses on the family. It provides advice on how dementia care may be developed and enhanced.

This workbook builds upon the person-centred approach to dementia care, and gives students, practitioners and carers a new way of looking at dementia and the people who live with it.

When a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia, many family members assume new roles as carers, helping their relative to remain safe, happy and as independent as possible. This title helps you and the person with dementia on the journey ahead.

A thought-provoking and heart-warming book that challenges the assumptions that we are to remain helpless when concerned with dementia, incorporating interviews and opinions from those with the disease and their carers.

Lively and critical study of the main approaches to Dementia Studies, examining current principles and ideologies as well as presenting alternative ideas for future care and understanding.

Dementia is an accessible introductory textbook that will help to improve the quality of care provided to people with dementia. It is aimed primarily at non-specialist nursing and healthcare students.

Bringing together philosophers and psychiatrists, this book explores the conceptual issues raised by this common illness. Examining the nature of personal identity in dementia, it also shows how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spiritual environment.

Dementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.

A world expert brings her advice up to date.

'Depression after Childbirth' has been extensively updated, and includes many new chapters drawing on the latest scientific findings.

Offers a comprehensive discussion of philosophies that are relevant to the conceptualization and development of the knowledge base and discipline of nursing. This book includes chapters on the knowledge-practice connection and models for nursing knowledge development. It explores how philosophy shapes aspects of nursing.

A practical, case study based application of the principles of person-centred practice and its development. Everyone is talking about person-centred care but now there's a how-to guide which actually supports and reflects the challenges of implementing and pursuing this in everyday practice to make it a reality in healthcare.

Developing Practical Nursing Skills helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse. Patient-focussed and adopting a caring approach, this essential text helps you to integrate nursing values alongside physical skills in your daily practice.

A comprehensive guide to developmental anatomy and physiology of children, related to the developing child from fetus up to adolescence. This work addresses various body systems. As well as addressing normal growth and development it places pathology in perspective when related to developmental issues, such as congenital abnormalities.