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Informationen zum Autor By Jean Rawitt Klappentext This book offers valuable information and support for teenagers who have a family member with dementia. It addresses the challenges they may face, provides practical advice, suggests ways to interact positively and assist the family member, and features stories from other young adults who know and care for people with dementia. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the challenges teenagers may face when a family member has dementia. It offers valuable information and support, with stories from young adults themselves and interviews with adults who know and care for people with dementia.
List of contents
You Are Not Alone
PART I: WHAT IS DEMENTIA
1: What Is Dementia?
2: What Does Dementia Look Like?
PART II: EXPECTATIONS AND CHALLENGES
3: What to Expect
4: What You Can Do to Help Someone with Dementia
5: How Does Dementia Affect Family and Friends?
6: Activities to Share with Someone with Dementia
PART III: WHAT'S NEXT?
7: Facing Death and the Rituals of Death and Mourning
8: How You Can Help Yourself during Difficult Times
Notes
Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Jean Rawitt is a freelance writer and a consultant for the Department of Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York). For ten years, she oversaw the hospital’s Varsity Volunteer Corps, where she developed and coordinated a program for high-school students to volunteer on hospital inpatient units. Rawitt is the author of Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers, A Loved One with Dementia: Insights and Tips for Teenagers, and Friendship: Insights and Tips for Teenagers. She lives in New York City.
