Gerontology Arena

Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease

A Christian Perspective

• By Elizabeth T Hall, and Harold G Koenig.

Published January 2000

Clarify your thinking on an issue that can tear families apart!Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Christian Perspective is the touching story of a woman’s daily struggles as a caregiver to her mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. You’ll learn how God’s presence in her life…
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Dementia in Close-Up

• By Bere Miesen.
• Translated by Gemma Jones.

Published November 1998

Dementia in Close-Up is a clear and practical guide to dementia and the world of the dementia sufferer.Bere Miesen assumes no medical or specialist knowledge and uses first hand accounts and real-life examples to examiners on patterns of behaviour and responses of sufferers and their carers. He…
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Care-Giving In Dementia

Volume 2

• Edited by Gemma Jones, and Bere Miesen.

Published August 1997

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in 'hands on' caring, or in planning care, for persons with dementia.…
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Care-Giving In Dementia 2

• Edited by Gemma Jones, and Bere Miesen.

Published August 1997

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in hands on caring, or in planning care, for persons with dementia. Volume…
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Care-Giving in Dementia

Volume 1: Research and Applications

• Edited by Gemma M. M. Jones, and Bere M. L. Miesen.
• Foreword by James Birren.

Published October 1993

A practical book for practical people,Care-Giving in Dementia integrates neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Multi-disciplinary and multi-professional in its approach, it emphasizes the variety of techniques that can be used effectively in caring…
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Neuropsychology and The Dementias

• By Siobhan Hart, and James M. Semple.

Published December 1992

Dementia is one of the most pressing problems that currently faces planners and providers of health care today. This has resulted in an explosion in research activity with the consequent growth of knowledge about all aspects of dementia and in particular about Alzheimer's disease. This book…
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The Mentally Impaired Elderly

Strategies and Interventions to Maintain Function

• By Ellen D Taira.

Published August 1991

Provide effective support and sensitive care for the most vulnerable segment of the elderly population--those with mental impairment--with the helpful methods and practical strategies outlined in this invaluable new book. Because of the increasing number of older persons with memory impairments,…
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The Geriatric Patient

Common Problems and Approaches to Rehabilitation Management

• By Susan S Rose, and Eleanor F Branch.

Published March 1989

Plan realistic and effective treatments for your elderly patients with a more thorough understanding of their needs and the ailments that commonly afflict them. The compelling presence of geriatric patients in occupational therapy practice has led professionals from a wide variety of health care…
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Aging at Home

How the Elderly Adjust Their Housing Without Moving

• By Raymond Struyk, and Harold Katsura.

Published November 1988

This vital book reports the significant findings of a research project designed to fill the void in the existing knowledge about the incidence of housing adjustments among the elderly and the factors causing them. The sharp increase in the number of elderly in the United States in the years ahead…
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Gerontological Social Work Practice With Families

A Guide to Practice Issues and Service Delivery

• By Rose Dobrof.

Published April 1987

Leading authorities examine the family relationships of older people and how they are important in the context of social work practice with the elderly in this comprehensive volume. They provide in-depth coverage of the role of the social worker as a caregiver in both institutional and…
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