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36-hour Day

A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss

Author: Nancy L. Mace and Peter V. Rabins   Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

After 35 years, still the indispensable guide for countless families and professionals caring for someone with dementia.

The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

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After 35 years, still the indispensable guide for countless families and professionals caring for someone with dementia.

The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

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Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs. Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition includes new information on devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia strategies for delaying behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship dementia due to traumatic brain injury choosing a residential care facility* support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members The central idea underlying the book-that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them-remains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

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Critic Reviews

“" The 36-Hour Day, 6th edition , serves as an essential guidebook full of detailed, practical, and compassionate advice for those caring for a PWD. This edition, released 36 years after the original, continues to provide relevant, practical, and up-to-date advice to those providing care to an individual with memory loss. The 36-Hour Day continues to serve as the gold-standard care guide for millions of dementia caregivers."”

The 36-Hour Day, 6th edition, serves as an essential guidebook full of detailed, practical, and compassionate advice for those caring for a PWD. This edition, released 36 years after the original, continues to provide relevant, practical, and up-to-date advice to those providing care to an individual with memory loss. The 36-Hour Day continues to serve as the gold-standard care guide for millions of dementia caregivers. -- Kara B. Dassel, PhD, University of Utah, College of Nursing The Gerontologist

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About the Author

Nancy L. Mace, MA, is retired. She was a consultant to and member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is a professor of the practice in the Erickson School of Aging Management Services at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was the founding director of the geriatric psychiatry program and the first holder of the Richman Family Professorship of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been the ""bible"" for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. This book offers much-needed information and support to millions of people throughout the world. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia, or another form of dementia, he or she will struggle with independent living and most likely face medical, behavioral, mood, and legal and financial problems. This essential resource will help family members and caregivers address all of these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs. Thoroughly revised and updated, this sixth edition features easy-to-see take-away messages about every aspect of caregiving. Informed by new research into the causes of dementia and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition also includes new and expanded information on what we know about how to prevent dementia and the diseases that cause dementia; new high-tech and low-tech devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia; behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms; strategies for delaying symptoms in a person who has dementia; changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws; changes in banking practices with regard to competency; palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship; Continuing Care at Home programs; Parkinson's related dementia; dementia due to traumatic brain injury choosing and moving a person to residential care; and support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members The central idea underlying the book--that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them--remains the same. Still very much the book readers turn to, this fresh edition of The 36-Hour Day is the definitive guide for those who continue to love someone even after he or she has been changed by dementia.

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Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published
18th April 2017
Edition
6th
Pages
416
ISBN
9781421422220

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