The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss - Softcover

Mace MA, Nancy L.; Rabins MD MPH, Peter V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1455521159 ISBN 13: 9781455521159

Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style, 2012

Synopsis

The most trusted guide for caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease, memory loss, and dementia disorders-now revised and updated with practical and legal advice and compassionate guidance for families and caregivers.

When someone in your family suffers from Alzheimer's disease or other related memory loss diseases, both you and your loved one face immense challenges. For over thirty years, this book has been the trusted bible for families affected by dementia disorders. Now completely revised and updated, this guide features the latest information on the causes of dementia, managing the early stages of dementia, the prevention of dementia, and finding appropriate living arrangements for the person who has dementia when home care is no longer an option. You'll learn:

• The basic facts about dementia
• How to deal with problems arising in daily care-meals, exercise, personal hygiene, and safety
• How to cope with an impaired person's false ideas, suspicion, anger, and other mood problems
• How to get outside help from support groups, friends, and agencies
• Financial and legal issues you must address.

Comprehensive and compassionate, The 36-Hour Day is the only guide you need to help your family through this difficult time.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Center web site has information on dementia and links to videos reviewing how to deal with problems that commonly arise in the care of a person with dementia (www.hopkinsmedicine.org/dementia_virtual _support_group).

About the Author

Nancy L. Mace, MA, 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, MD, MPH, is the Richman Family Professor of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Departments of Mental Health and Health Policy and Management. Rabins is also the director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service, and the Jane K. Schapiro Family-Centered Dementia Care Program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1455521159
• ISBN 13: 9781455521159
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 640