Description
Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and handle people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, she or he will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help members of the family and caregivers address these challenges and concurrently cope with their own emotions and needs.
Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by contemporary 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 because of traumatic brain injury
• choosing a residential care facility
• beef up groups for caregivers, friends, and family members
The central idea underlying the book―that much will also be done to fortify the lives of people with dementia and of those taking good care of them―remains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.