Learning to Speak Alzheimer's: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease
- ISBN-10
- 1864710632
- ISBN-13
- 9781864710632
- Series
- Learning to Speak Alzheimer's
- Category
- Alzheimer's disease
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Author
- Joanne Koenig Coste
Description
In this book the author, unveils the habitation approach, designed to enable the Alzheimer's patient to maintain dignity and allow both patient and caregiver to thrive, not just mark time. Refuting long-accepted ideas, it shows carers how to change their notion about living with memory loss, such as learning to join paitents in their sense of place and time, encouraging them to use their remaining skills to support a sense of self-worth and independence, how to adapt reactions to unfamiliar behaviour and to continue communicating by focuing ont he patient's emotional language.
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- 2004-09-08
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