'This is the best guide of its kind.' - Jory Graham, CHICAGO SUN TIMES. 'The best available...' - AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY This is the comprehensive guide to the home care of those in all stages of progressive dementing illness. New information on late-stage dementia is also included in this revised edition. All your questions are answered - why people with dementia do the things they do; managing meals and eating; using medications. Also covered are the medical, legal, financial and emotional aspects - from dealing with baffling, unpredictable symptoms to finding a support group.
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Nancy L. Mace, M.A., now retired, was a consultant to, and a member of, the board of directors of the Alzheimer Association and an assistant in psychiatry as coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of psychiatry, with joint appointments in medicine, mental hygiene and health policy and management, director of the geriatric neuropsychiatry section, and director of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
PROFESSIONAL ENDORSMENT: THE 36-HOUR DAY is endorsed by the Alzheimer Disease And Related Disorders Association Of America
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