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Assisting someone with Alzheimer's disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer's disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from managing the person's finances to helping with intimate activities such as bathing and dressing.
Key coverage in Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders includes:
Early diagnosis and family dynamics
Emotional needs of caregivers
Developmentally appropriate long-term care for people with Alzheimer's
Family caregivers as members of the Alzheimer's treatment Team
Legal and ethical issues for caregivers
Faith and spirituality
The economics of caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Cultural, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic issues of minority caregivers
Advances in Alzheimer's disease research
Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.
List of contents
Preface.- Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving: The Needs of Family Caregivers.- Section I: Issues Affecting the Care Triad.- Chapter 1. Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: Caregiving, and Family Dynamics.- Chapter 2. Psychosocial Interventions to Address the Emotional Needs of Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease.- Chapter 3. Education, Training, and Support Programs for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease.- Section II: Issues in Providing Quality Care.- Chapter 4. Developmentally Appropriate Long-Term Care for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders.- Chapter 5. The Economics of Caring for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease.- Chapter 6. Faith and Spirituality: Supporting Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia.- Chapter 7. Family Caregivers as Members of the Alzheimer's Treatment Team.- Chapter 8. End-of-Life Issues for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.- Section III: Cross-cutting Issues Impacting Caregivers and Caregiving.- Chapter 9. Ethical Issues: Perspective 1: Providing Care for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease: Practice, Education, and Research.- Chapter 10. Ethical Issues: Perspective 2: The Fundamental Role of Personhood.- Chapter 11. Legal Issues for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease.- Chapter 12. Advances in Alzheimer's Disease Research: Implications for Family Caregiving.
About the author
Ronda C. Talley, PhD, MPH, serves as Health Scientist on the Disability and Health Team in CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. She carries the portfolio on caregiving across the life span, including mental health and disability issues for children and youth. Dr. Talley is the immediate past Executive Director and Professor at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, which is located at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia. The RCI opened a Washington, DC, office in 2003. Dr. Talley led the RCI s National Quality Caregiving Coalition. While at the RCI, Dr. Talley conceptualized and developed the initial stages of the Caregiving book series, working with all authors and editors. Former Assistant Executive Director of Education and Director of Policy and Advocacy in the Schools for the American Psychological Association, Dr. Talley was Founding Director of the APA s Center for Psychology in Schools and Education. In her position at APA, Dr. Talley was responsible for directing Association programs that bring the knowledge and methods of psychology to bear on national issues of social reform related to schools and education, including educational research, practices, and policies. Dr. Talley is also a Fellow of APA's Division of School Psychology and author of many publications in psychology.During 1994-95, Dr. Talley was selected as an Education Policy Fellow by the Washington, DC-based Institute for Educational Leadership. As the recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Indiana University School of Education, Dr. Talley was described as 'the voice of school psychology at the national level'. She is the 1998 recipient of the Jack Bardon Distinguished Service Award from the APA Division of School Psychology. With more than 30 years of service as a special education teacher, school psychologist, school administrator, university professor, organizational advocate, lobbyist, and private consultant, Dr. Talley is a frequent writer and speaker on caregiving issues and on public policy and practice issues in health, education, and human services reform. She specializes in life span caregiving issues and organizational planning and development. Dr. Talley has served as editor of four published volumes.
Summary
Assisting someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer’s disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from managing the person’s finances to helping with intimate activities such as bathing and dressing.
Key coverage in Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders includes:
Early diagnosis and family dynamics
Emotional needs of caregivers
Developmentally appropriate long-term care for people with Alzheimer’s
Family caregivers as members of the Alzheimer’s treatment Team
Legal and ethical issues for caregivers
Faith and spirituality
The economics of caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
Cultural, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic issues of minority caregivers
Advances in Alzheimer’s disease research
Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.
