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The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care
The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care shows how easily you can make a difference in the life of a family member or client in your care. Here's the help you've been looking for: families will gain a renewed sense of hope, nursing facility staff will find simple applications for resident care, adult day center staff can enrich programming and attract more volunteers, and individuals with emerging Alzheimer's disease will gain valuable insights. Learn new ways to solve problems, encourage positive behavior, and improve communications. Make every day consistently reassuring, enjoyable, and secure.
A Dignified Life
More than 5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's disease or a related form of dementia. By the year 2030, experts estimate that as many as 66 million people around the world will be faced with this life-altering disease. Unfortunately, these staggering statistics impact millions of caregivers, too. Compared with all types of caregivers, those who assist someone with dementia experience the highest levels of burnout, depression, poor health, and premature death. A Dignified Life, Revised and Expanded offers hope and help with a proven approach. Ten years ago, the first edition of A Dignified Life changed the way the caregiving community approached Alzheimer's disease by sho...
David Troxel
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The Best Friends Staff
"This updated edition of the bestselling book addresses today's intense pressures in staffing and retention. It shows vividly how the Best Friends approach to dementia care improves quality of life not only for persons with memory loss but also for the staff providing care. This book provides guidance and tools for training staff in the skills to provide exceptional dementia care and find satisfaction in their work. Includes: Stories from successful dementia programs, chapter-by-chapter toolkits of training techniques and learning exercises, ways to support and retain staff, and actionable ideas to improve the care culture"--
The Best Friends Approach to Dementia Care
Preceded by The best friends approach to Alzheimer's care / Virginia Bell and David Troxel. c1997.
The Best Friends Daily Planner
The Best Friends Daily Planner shows you how simple it is to be a Best Friend to a person with dementia each and every day. This handy and practical book provides you with Best Friends guiding principles and reflection questions, as well as more than 150 quick, easy, and surprising activities to support your caregiving each week. The Best Friends Daily Planner can be used as an individual resource or with any of the many books in the world-renowned Best Friends product suite. Developed by dementia care experts Virginia Bell and David Troxel, Best Friends is a sensitive and sensible approach to dementia care based on the essential elements of friendship: respect, empathy, support, trust, and ...
Prophetic Literature
Prophetic Literature: From Oracles to Books presents an in-depth introduction to the origins and development of the Prophetic Books of the Old Testament, including an examination of the literary structure, authorship, and editorial processes that produced each book. The only introductory textbook that explores both how the prophetic books were composed and edited Accessible and engaging, the book contains numerous student features to encourage learning, including introductions, summaries, tables and boxes, etc Based on international scholarship on the individual prophetic books, including German scholarship that is otherwise inaccessible to most English readers
The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities
A follow-up volume to the best-selling The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities. This collection of 149 all-new activities will add both meaning and enjoyment to the activity program at adult day centers, long-term care facilities, and home care settings.Feedback and insights from individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's disease helped shape the fun and easy activities. New themes in Volume Two include activities related to the kitchen and food, life story sharing and reminiscence, religious and spiritual traditions, and wellness. The activities also include an enhanced focus on diversity and multiculturalism. Adaptations for people in the early and late stages of Alzheimer's disease, preventive measures to avoid unwanted surprises, and conversation tips make these activities particularly versatile.
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients...
