Caregiver''s Guide to Memory Care and Dementia Communities

"When is it time to move a person living with dementia into a senior living community? How do you avoid an argument with someone who no longer knows what year it is? What do you do if the person you're caring for has trouble recognizing you? How can you lessen the guilt and anxiety that come with dementia caregiving? All of these questions-and more-are answered in this helpful guide through the difficulties of dementia care. Care partners to those living with dementia will find this book a helpful guide into an unfamiliar and challenging world, and professionals in the industry will come away with dementia knowledge they have not gotten anywhere else"--

About the author

Gerontologist Rachael Wonderlin (PITTSBURGH, PA) is an internationally recognized dementia care consultant who owns a senior living consulting company and runs the popular blog and podcast by the same name, Dementia By Day. She is the author of When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community and the coauthor of Creative Engagement: A Handbook of Activities for People with Dementia.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Tristani, Rachael Wonderlin
• Assisted by: Michelle Tristani (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781421444321
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4432-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Book; A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Popular medicine & health, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Care of the elderly, Public health & preventive medicine, Nursing & ancillary services