Reducing stress-related behaviours in people with dementia : care-based therapy /
This practical book provides simple and imaginative ways to prevent and reduce stress-related behaviours in people with dementia in residential care. The author's approach is based on maximizing personal expression and fulfilment and recovering access to familiar, enjoyable and meaningful activ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stress factors
- Results of stress
- Preventing/minimizing stress
- Find out as much as you can about the person
- Apply appropriate practices to minimize stress
- Addressing stress-related responses
- Hostile verbal and physical responses
- Verbally agitated behaviours
- Wandering
- Intrusiveness, rummaging or picking behaviour
- Managing feeding problems
- Interventions to improve feeding
- Managing inappropriate sexual activity
- Managing sleep disturbance
- Factors affecting sleep in elderly people with dementia
- Interventions to improve sleep
- Importance of teamwork, training and support.