Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies

Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients with dementia. It presents the local and global challenges of these patients, also coupling foundational knowledge with specific strategies to overcome these challenges. The book examines the trajectory of the disease, offers stage-appropriate practices and strategies to improve quality of life, provides theoretical and practical frameworks that inform on ways to support and care for individuals living with dementia, includes evidence-based recommendations for research, and details global examples of care approaches that work.

Offers evidence-based strategies for making life better for dementia patients at home, in the community, and in health care and service settingsProvides an overview of the disease pathology, current diagnostic criteria, and the stages and trajectory of the illnessIncludes intervention strategies to support formal caregiversLooks at the role of environmental design and technology in dementia care

Part 1: About the Person 1. How the Brain is Affected 2. Lived Experiences of Individuals with Dementia 3. Breaking the Cycle of Despair 4. Making Life Better for Individuals Living with Dementia

Part II: About Caregivers 5. Family Member as Care Partner 6. How We Can Support Families 7. Formal caregivers: Role of the Inter-professional Team

Part III: About Home and Community Environments 8. The Physical Home Environment – A Neglected Therapeutic Context 9. Living in the community

Part IV: About Social Systems and Policy 10. Settings and Services of Care 11. Global Efforts and National Plans 12. Transforming Dementia care

Part V: Taking Action 13. Developing and Implementing an Action Plan 14. Putting It All Together