Finding the Light in Dementia: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers

“It’s absolutely amazing, I think it should be compulsory reading for everybody at the start of dementia. I wish it had been around when my husband first started developing it” Elizabeth Cox, Wife & Caregiver

Want to reconnect with your loved one living with dementia? Learn what to say & do from a Dementia Nurse Specialist & care with confidence. 'Finding the Light in Dementia: A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers' is the essential self-help book that helps you know what to say and do when caring for your loved one/care partner.

Providing chapters on:

• What to do following a diagnosis
• Positive ways of communicating together
• Using life stories & activities to stimulate memories & communication
• How to be content & safe at home
• Tips for sleeping, eating & drinking
• How to provide personal care without resistance
• How to respond to changes in moods & behaviour
• Learn how to avoid distress
• Caring for yourself as caregiver

It offers valuable approaches, tips & suggestions interspersed with caregiver stories that help the reader learn to care for & stay connected with their care partner. Whether you're a spouse, partner, daughter, son, sibling, friend, parent, paid caregiver, or health & social care professional, this book is for you.

By helping you understand what your care partner is experiencing you will learn:

• What to say & do during difficult & challenging moments
• How to communicate, reconnect with them and understand how they are experiencing their world
• How making subtle changes to your home can help and how environment and surroundings may trigger emotions and behavior
• Learn how to overcome the challenges of changing moods & behavior
• How to reduce the effects of hallucinations, delusions & fixed beliefs

Finding the Light in Dementia also provides:
★ Advice when considering professional care at home & in residential care
★ Short chapters with easy-to-read font & summaries for quick reference
★ Notes pages to write down any points you would like to make
★ Question sheets for you to refer to when speaking with your doctor and/or legal professionals
★ You can make this your personal guide

When following the approaches in this book, you should find that your care partner will feel more understood & you will become calmer thereby helping you both find a sense of connection & continue to live well.

Finding the Light in Dementia: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers is the essential self-help book that explains how the person living with dementia experiences their world and the common changes that can occur. By offering valuable approaches, tips and personal stories, Jane M Mullins helps readers learn to communicate with, care for and maintain a connection with their loved one.

This book offers hope and strength to all of those affected by dementia, whether you're a spouse, partner, daughter, son, sibling or friend.

Jane has also created an online guide full of films and audios with contributions from:
Former Caregivers
People Living with Dementia
Leading Professionals in the Field

For more information go to https://www.findingthelightindementia.com/online-guide-landing-page/?v=79cba1185463

Jane M. Mullins is a dementia nurse consultant who has devoted over 25 years to the study and practice of dementia care. Through listening to and supporting people and their families during their diagnosis in memory clinics, caring for people who have dementia in hospital and in care homes, she has helped people throughout all of the stages of their condition. When managing a Nursing Home, she has supported their transition from home to residential care using lifestories as a guide to planning their life and care throughout their remaining years. This has also included supporting their partners, families and friends. Her particular passions are finding ways to communicate through music, nature and art as a way to helping people feel well and valued while living with dementia. Jane has uncovered certain common features that may help caregivers and the people they care for find better ways of coping, you can find these in her new book: Finding the Light in Dementia, a Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers. Her extensive practice experience is backed up by expert knowledge gained from keeping up with research, attending conferences, seminars, investigator meetings, lecturing and studying for her PhD; A suitcase full of memories: a sensory ethnography of dementia. She explores sensory, creative and intuitive ways of communicating with those living with dementia. Her passion of spreading the word about how to connect with and help those affected by dementia also shines through in her columns in the Mature Times, Mumbles Times and Cardiff Times.

Carole Fawcett is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and qualified Counsellor as well as a book editor. The fact that Carole is a qualified counsellor has proved invaluable in understanding and helping writers communicate the ethos and nature of their work through their writing. Her editing approach and personable style helps writers feel less isolated and supported.