Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey - Softcover

Bowlby Sifton BScOT ODH, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932529047 ISBN 13: 9781932529043

Publisher: Health Professions Press, 2004

Synopsis

Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease is more stressful than almost any other caregiving role. You may already know firsthand how true this is. With limited treatment options from the medical community, it is truly your care that is the most meaningful treatment for your loved one. Navigating the Alzheimer’s Journey is your best guide to providing that care. Whether the diagnosis is still fresh or you are well into your caregiving journey, the suggestions in this book will smooth your way. Filled with reassurances and practical advice, Navigating the Alzheimer’s Journey gives you the encouragement and tools you need to manage the daily care of someone with dementia in a caring, compassionate, and supportive way. As a longstanding professional Alzheimer’s specialist and a former caregiver herself, Carol Bowlby Sifton knows exactly what information you need to know, including how Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias may affect your loved ones, how to communicate and interact most successfully, and how to manage activities of daily care. Learn why challenging behaviors occur and how to respond to them, how to arrange the environment to support everyday functioning, how to capitalize on remaining abilities, when and how to get help, and what plans to make for future care. You will find your most pressing day-to-day needs met in this comprehensive and informative book. Just like a compass, it will keep you confidently pointed in the right direction at each stage of your caregiving journey.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Bowlby Sifton, B.Sc.O.T., O.D.H., is a former family caregiver, an occupational therapist, a clinical consultant, an educator, and an author who has worked extensively with persons with dementia and their caregivers throughout the continuum of care. She is a dementia consultant to numerous long-term care facilities as well as to Veterans Affairs Canada, working in the homes of persons with dementia and their caregivers. Carol also operates Elderactive Occupational Therapy, which specializes in enhancing the quality of life of persons with dementia. She has presented her highly acclaimed interactive workshops throughout North America. In addition, Carol has served as clinical coordinator and assessor for geriatrics at Victoria General Hospital, site of the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Furthermore, she has lectured at Dalhousie Universityâ??s Medical School and School of Occupational Therapy in Halifax and at Mount Saint Vincentâ??s Universityâ??s Family Studies and Gerontology Department, also in Halifax. Carol is the editor of Alzheimerâ??s Care Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on quality dementia care that is readily incorporated into the day-to-day activities of professionals across the continuum of care. In addition to this book, Navigating the Alzheimerâ??s Journey: A Compass for Caregiving, a companion book by Carol specifically guides professionals who care for people with Alzheimerâ??s disease (visit the Health Professions Press website, http://www.healthpropress.com, or call toll-free 888-337-8808, for information). Her earlier book Therapeutic Activities with Persons Disabled by Alzheimerâ??s Disease and Related Disorders (Aspen Publishers, 1993) is recognized as a key resource across North America. While serving as national coordinator for the Health Canada/Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists/Alzheimer Canada Dementia Care at Home Project, she wrote Living at Home with Alzheimerâ??s Disease and Related Dementias (Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, 1998), a resource manual for professionals in community care.

Edition details

• Publisher: Health Professions Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932529047
• ISBN 13: 9781932529043
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 688