Innovative Interventions To Reduce Dementia Caregiver Distress »

David W. Coon, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and Research Scientist/Project Director at the Institute of Aging (formerly Goldman Institute on Aging).

Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, PhD, ABPP, is Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has been for many years the Director of the Older Adult and Family Center of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University.

Larry W. Thompson, PhD, is Professor (Active) Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the Director of the Older Adult and Family Center until his retirement. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical Gerontologist Journal.

Health researchers, practitioners, and policy makers provide strategies for assisting distressed caregivers and improving quality of life for both caregivers and dementia patients. The volume's 14 chapters outline current problems in the area of caregiving, and then develop several solution approaches such as the use of technological advances and the partnering of caregivers with primary care physicians. The volume includes interventions for a multicultural society; specific stressors of spousal caregivers: difficult behaviors, loss of sexual intimacy, and incontinence; and ethnic minority caregivers. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR