Chapter 1. Understanding dementia CHAPTER CONTENTS Introduction1 What is dementia?2 Living with primary dementia6 The nature of the neurological impairment8 Memory19 Conclusion23 INTRODUCTION The question ‘What is dementia?’ is easy…
Chapter 4. The significance of the carer The scenario recorded in Box 4.1 was actually an informal note, scribbled ‘stream of consciousness’ style in the period after lunch one day….
Chapter 9. Assessing capacity for doing and promoting engagement Chapter Contents Introduction135 An ethical basis136 Capacity for doing138 Engaging with objects and tasks140 Wellbeing and ill-being144 Conclusion151 INTRODUCTION I remember…
Chapter 8. A model for dementia care Chapter Contents Introduction117 The reflective phase118 The symbolic phase122 The sensorimotor phase126 The reflex phase130 INTRODUCTION So far in this book we have…
Chapter 7. Non-verbal communicationthe currency of wellbeing CHAPTER CONTENTS Introduction97 How do we use our body in its relationship or proximity to another person (or persons)?102 How do we use…
Chapter 10. The dementia therapista good enough mother? It is perhaps something of an anomaly in today’s world of remedial health care professions, that we do not hear the term…
Chapter 5. The playful practitioner CHAPTER CONTENTS Introduction71 Play is movement72 Play is a liberation73 Play is stimulus seeking73 Play is creativity74 The experience of relationship75 The fullest expression of…
Chapter 3. The altered world of dementia It is of course impossible for most of us to enter in any significant way into the world of the person who has…
Chapter 6. Principles of good practice in dementia care CHAPTER CONTENTS Process or product?85 Cognitive or sensory?88 Relaxation or arousal?90 Order and disorder?92 Familiarity or novelty?93 As we start to…
Chapter 2. Occupational therapy revisited CHAPTER CONTENTS Introduction27 Occupation29 Occupation and wellness31 Occupation and meaning33 Occupation and creativity35 Occupation and wellbeing39 INTRODUCTION Perhaps the most serious challenge that our profession…
