Authors: Sheila M. LoboPrabhu (Editor), Victor A. Molinari (Editor), James W. Lomax
ISBN-13: 9780801883439, ISBN-10: 0801883431
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Sheila M. LoboPrabhu, M.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and a staff psychiatrist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Victor A. Molinari, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Aging and Mental Health at the University of South Florida. James W. Lomax II, M.D., is Professor and Karl Menninger Chair of Psychiatric Education in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.
Alzheimer dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing seniors and their caregivers around the globe. Developed by experts in both research and practice, this guide for mental health clinicians explores the experience of caregiving in dementia, discussing the latest research developments and sharing clinical pearls of wisdom that can easily be translated to daily practice.
1 | The history of caregiving in dementia | 3 |
2 | The caregiver in dementia | 25 |
3 | From home to nursing home : a continuum of care for persons with dementia | 46 |
4 | Caregiver burden | 63 |
5 | The affective interpersonal bond in caregiving | 85 |
6 | Religious participation and caregiving : a psychodynamic perspective | 104 |
7 | Caregiving and the sexual relationship on dementia | 117 |
8 | Grief and loss in dementia | 132 |
9 | The role of pharmacotherapy for dementia patients with behavioral disturbances | 151 |
10 | Care of the caregiver : individual and family interventions | 168 |
11 | Health supports for the caregiver | 192 |
12 | Health care policies and caregivers | 223 |
13 | Ethnic elders and caregiving | 237 |
14 | The ethics of dementia caregiving | 261 |