Remembering Home - Rediscovering the Self in Dementia

Informationen zum Autor Habib Chaudhury teaches gerontology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. His research interests are memories of place and self in aging, seniors' housing, design in dementia care, and design for active older adults. He serves as a design research consultant for senior housing, residential care, and dementia care facilities and is the coeditor of Home and Identity in Late Life . Klappentext Chaudhury encourages health care professionals and activity leaders to embrace a personhood-affirming mode of care and provides tools and information for nonprofessionals who want to connect with, understand, and better appreciate people with dementia. Zusammenfassung Chaudhury encourages health care professionals and activity leaders to embrace a personhood-affirming mode of care and provides tools and information for nonprofessionals who want to connect with! understand! and better appreciate people with dementia.

Product details

• Authors: Habib Chaudhury, Habib (Assistant Professor Chaudhury
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2008
• EAN: 9780801888267
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8826-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Geriatrics, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Geriatric medicine, Nursing and ancillary services, Coping with Alzheimer’s and dementia, Alzheimer’s and dementia