Synopses & Reviews
2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in both Gerontologic Nursing and Hospice and Palliative Care
This book...provides important information on best practices and appropriate ways to care for a person with Alzheimer's and advanced dementia. Drs. Martin and Sabbagh have assembled a team of experts to help craft recommendations that should ultimately become standards that all professional caregivers adopt.-Michael Reagan
Son of former President Ronald Reagan
President, Reagan Legacy Foundation
This book testifies that caregivers can have a monumental impact on the lives of persons with advanced dementia. Through specialized programming and a renewed effort toward patient-centered care, caregivers can profoundly enrich the quality of life for these persons. Providing guidelines for health care professionals, caregivers, and family members, this book introduces palliative care programs and protocols for the treatment of people with advanced dementia.
The book is designed to guide professional caregivers in meeting the needs of patients and their families, providing insight into the philosophy, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation measures involved in interdisciplinary palliative care. The chapter authors offer guidelines and standards of care based on contributions from nurses, physical therapists, social workers, dietitions, psychologists, family caregivers and pastors. An exhibit at the end of every chapter clearly articulates the standards of care appropriate for all advanced dementia facilities and health care staff. This book helps caregivers:
- Enhance the physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being of the patient and the patient's family
- Anticipate and meet the patient's basic human needs: hunger, thirst, body positioning, hygiene, continence, and management of any pain
- Ensure that the patient's surroundings are safe, comfortable, and homelike
- Address health care decisions that will support the patient's right to self-determination until the end of life
Synopsis
While many studies simply identify care giving deficits, little has been written to help caregivers address them. This book testifies that caregivers actually can have a monumental impact on the lives of persons with advanced dementia. Through specialized programming and a renewed effort targeted at getting to know the person, anticipating and meeting the needs, providing comfort, establishing meaningful connections, and improving the quality of life at the end of life, caregivers can profoundly affect the lives of these individuals.
Providing guidelines for family members and at-home caregivers, this book introduces palliative care programs and protocols for the treatment of people with advanced dementia. It proposes an interdisciplinary team working together to meet the highest standards of palliative care.
This book helps care givers: Address and enact measures that support quality of life to ultimately enhance the physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being of the patient and the patient's family Anticipate and meet the patient's basic human needs: hunger, thirst, body positioning, hygiene, continence, and management of any pain Maintain, as much as possible, individual human contact Preserve and protect the dignity of the patient Ensure that the patient's surroundings are safe, comfortable, and homelike Address health care decisions that will support the patient's right to self-determination until the end of life
Synopsis
Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2010
This book...provides important information on best practices and appropriate ways to care for a person with Alzheimer's and advanced dementia. Drs. Martin and Sabbagh have assembled a team of experts to help craft recommendations that should ultimately become standards that all professional caregivers adopt.-Michael Reagan
Son of former President Ronald Reagan
President, Reagan Legacy Foundation
This book testifies that caregivers can have a monumental impact on the lives of persons with advanced dementia. Through specialized programming and a renewed effort toward patient-centered care, caregivers can profoundly enrich the quality of life for these persons. Providing guidelines for health care professionals, caregivers, and family members, this book introduces palliative care programs and protocols for the treatment of people with advanced dementia.
The book is designed to guide professional caregivers in meeting the needs of patients and their families, providing insight into the philosophy, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation measures involved in interdisciplinary palliative care. The chapter authors offer guidelines and standards of care based on contributions from nurses, physical therapists, social workers, dietitions, psychologists, family caregivers and pastors. An exhibit at the end of every chapter clearly articulates the standards of care appropriate for all advanced dementia facilities and health care staff. This book helps caregivers:
- Enhance the physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being of the patient and the patient's family
- Anticipate and meet the patient's basic human needs: hunger, thirst, body positioning, hygiene, continence, and management of any pain
- Ensure that the patient's surroundings are safe, comfortable, and homelike
- Address health care decisions that will support the patient's right to self-determination until the end of life