The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) - Hardcover

Mace, Nancy L.; Rabins, Peter V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1421422220 ISBN 13: 9781421422220

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs.

Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition includes new information on

· devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia
· strategies for delaying behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms
· changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws
· palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship
· dementia due to traumatic brain injury
· choosing a residential care facility
· support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members

The central idea underlying the book―that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them―remains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

About this title

Book Description

After 35 years, still the indispensable guide for countless families and professionals caring for someone with dementia.

About the Author

Nancy L. Mace, MA, is retired. She was a consultant to and member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer’s Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is a professor of the practice in the Erickson School of Aging Management Services at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was the founding director of the geriatric psychiatry program and the first holder of the Richman Family Professorship of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1421422220
• ISBN 13: 9781421422220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 416