1. Relationships -- 2. Dementia: Definition and Consequences -- 3. Getting the Facts: History and Personal Information -- 4. Ongoing Appraisal of the Person's Cognitive Abilities -- 5. Functional Assessment -- 6. Preventing Challenging Behavior -- 7. Using Well That Which Remains: But I Thought You Said He Can't Remember? -- 8. Responding to Problematic Behavior: A Process -- 9. Communication: The Heart of Relationships -- 10. Alzheimer's Disease and the Home: Issues in Environmental Design -- 11. Programming Activities -- 12. Why Groups? -- 13. When Is Breakfast? Any Time You Want It / Deborah A. Macdonald Connolly and Jitka M. Zgola -- 14. I Have Him Dressed - What Now?: Organizing a Day at Home with a Cognitively Impaired Person -- 15. Visiting Well -- 16. Some Lessons That Come from Caring
Notes
Zgola shows how caregivers can better meet the demanding challenges of their job by building and improving their personal relationships with those in their care. Instead of simply prescribing approaches, 'Care That Works' gives caregivers the information with which they can develop their own approaches, evaluate their effectiveness, and continue to grow in skill and insight
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index