36-Hour Day - A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease,

Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been the "bible¿ for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. This book offers much-needed information and support to millions of people throughout the world. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia, or another form of dementia, he or she will struggle with independent living and most likely face medical, behavioral, mood, and legal and financial problems. This essential resource will help family members and caregivers address all of these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this sixth edition features easy-to-see take-away messages about every aspect of caregiving. Informed by new research into the causes of dementia and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition also includes new and expanded information on

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List of contents

behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms;
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About the author

what we know about how to prevent dementia and the diseases that cause dementia;
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Summary

The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy L Mace, Nancy L. Mace, Nancy L. Rabins Mace, Peter V. Rabins
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781421422220
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2222-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book; Johns Hopkins Press Health Boo; Johns Hopkins Press Health Book; A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book; Johns Hopkins Press Health Boo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine