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Learn to: - Get the straight facts on dementia
- Decipher the different types of dementia
- Uncover the symptoms, causes and risk factors
- Help someone manage their illness and provide care
Your no-nonsense guide to dealing with dementia If you know someone who has been diagnosed with dementia, this compassionate guide covers everything you'll encounter while caring for your loved one. You'll discover the symptoms of dementia, make sense of the stages of the illness and grasp the differences between the various types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.
- The deal with dementia - discover the early warning signs, thought-processing problems and emotional changes associated with dementia
- What does the future hold? - find guidance on getting a diagnosis, understand the medical and non-medical treatments available and help ease the cognitive, emotional and functional symptoms of a loved one
- All you need is love - provide good care for your loved one, get to know the challenges that lie ahead and know where to turn for help when you need it
- The long haul - make sense of domiciliary and longer-term care, adapt an existing home to accommodate a dementia patient and get sensitive and authoritative advice on choosing a care facility
Open the book and find: - Exactly what dementia is and how it's diagnosed
- The causes and risk factors associated with dementia
- How to get assistance from the state
- Authoritative guidance on end-of-life planning
- Ten tips for the caregivers, friends and family of those suffering from dementia
- Dementia myths debunked
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Could It Be Dementia? 5 Chapter 1: Checking Out the Facts on Dementia 7
Chapter 2: Spotting the Symptoms 21
Chapter 3: Looking at the Different Types of Dementia 35
Chapter 4: Considering Causes and Risk Factors 55
Chapter 5: Understanding the Stages of Dementia 71
Part II: Helping Someone Manage the Illness 81 Chapter 6: Getting a Diagnosis 83
Chapter 7: Medical Treatments in Dementia 101
Chapter 8: Considering Non-Medical Treatment 113
Chapter 9: Dealing with Troublesome Symptoms in Late Dementia 129
Part III: Providing Care for Your Loved One 147 Chapter 10: Recognising the Challenges Ahead 149
Chapter 11: Making Caring Easier 161
Chapter 12: Coping with Caring 181
Chapter 13: Sourcing Help: Working Your Way Around the System 199
Chapter 14: Sorting Out Benefits 209
Chapter 15: Addressing Legal Issues 219
Part IV: Sorting Out Domiciliary and Longer-Term Care 233 Chapter 16: Choosing Ongoing Care for Your Loved One 235
Chapter 17: Receiving Assistance from the State 249
Chapter 18: Helping the Care Home 257
Chapter 19: Knowing What to Do If the Person with Dementia Goes into Hospital 269
Chapter 20: Planning for the End of Someone's Life 279
Part V: The Part of Tens 289 Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Dealing with Dementia 291
Chapter 22: Ten Tips for Caregivers, Friends and Families 297
Chapter 23: Busting Ten Myths about Dementia 303
Appendix A: Useful Contacts and Resources 309
Appendix B: ACE III Exam 313
Index 321
About the author
Simon Atkins studied at Bristol University Medical School and trained as a GP in Bedminster Down. He is a freelance medical journalist and has been a columnist for
The Guardian. He presented the BBC 3 series
Make Me a Baby. His most recent book is
First Steps to Living with Dementia.
Summary
Your hands-on guide to dealing with dementia within the UK healthcare system If a loved one has recently been diagnosed with dementia, Dementia For Dummies, UK Edition provides trusted, no-nonsense guidance on what this may mean for you and your family.
