Younger People with Dementia: Planning, Practice and Development

Despite the growth of interest in dementia and dementia care over the past two decades, services and interventions for younger people with dementia and their carers remain, on the whole, fragmented and poorly developed. The focus of social, psychological and biomedical research has been almost exclusively on older people and their carers.

The first book to address the subject in its own right, Younger People with Dementia addresses good practice and stimulates an agenda for change. The contributors explore the implications for younger people with dementia and their families at personal, planning and service-development levels. Arguing that information from the wide range of existing practice and clinical knowledge can be shared and built upon, the contributors call for a collaborative, interprofessional and multi-disciplinary approach to all stages of the provision of services.

Sylvia Cox is a qualified social worker with many years' experience as a practitioner and manager in a range of community care services. Since 1995 she has been Planning Consultant at the Dementia Service Development Centre, University of Stirling, Scotland, where she is involved in consultancy, development and research with a particular emphasis on collaborative interagency working. John Keady is a lecturer in nursing at the University of Wales, Bangor. He previously worked as a community psychiatric nurse in a community dementia team in Meirionnydd, North Wales. At present he is involved in a three year study looking at the outcomes of early intervention with people with dementia and their support network.