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Author Zgola, Jitka M.

Title Care that works : a relationship approach to persons with dementia / Jitka M. Zgola
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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 W'BOOL  362.19683 Zgo/Ctw  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 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
Subject Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Services for.
Dementia -- Patients -- Care.
Dementia -- Patients -- Home care.
Dementia -- Patients -- Services for.
Interpersonal relations.
Dementia -- therapy.
Aged.
Alzheimer Disease -- therapy.
Interpersonal Relations.
Patient Care -- methods.
LC no. 98042344
ISBN 0801860253 (alk. paper)
0801860261 (paperback: alk. paper)