Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions: Riding the Waves

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions provides evidence-informed approaches and future directions for supporting a higher quality of life for people living with dementia. Through a person-centered lens, this book equips care providers to better help people living with dementia align their expectations and hopes with the trajectories they can expect in their journey. It highlights the various transitions that those with dementia will experience and describes best practices for optimal adjustment to each. Topics covered include problem identification, driving cessation, loss of financial autonomy, acute hospital admission, moving to assisted living residences and long term care homes, and palliative and end of life care.

This is a must have reference for researchers, clinicians, and mental health professionals (psychologists, counsellors, social workers, mental health nurses) as well as policy makers and other health and social care providers working with individuals with dementia.

Emphasizes empowerment and quality of life for all those living with dementiaExplores strategies for managing the ups and downs of the dementia journey from diagnosis to end of lifeRecommendations are couched in evidence and extensive experience of the authors

1. Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions
Neil Drummond, Linda Garcia and Lynn McCleary
2. “It is not a disease, only memory loss”: exploring the
complexity of access to a diagnosis of dementia in a
cross-cultural sample
Sharon Koehn
3. Driving cessation in people with dementia
Bonnie M. Dobbs
4. Transitions in financial autonomy and risk for financial
elder abuse
Stacey Wood, Peter A. Lichtenberg, Muncuran Purewal and Linda Garcia
5. Hospitalization of persons with dementia
Katherine S. McGilton and Geneviève Lemay
6. Change in informal support: creating a caregiving system
Melanie Deist and Abraham P. Greeff
7. Transitioning from home in the community to an assisted
living residence
Lynn McCleary, Mackenzie Powell and Willian Dullius
8. Relocation to a long-term care home
Annie Robitaille
9. A palliative approach to care: from diagnosis to end-of-life
Genevieve Thompson and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths
10. Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in
dementia
Linda Garcia, Neil Drummond and Lynn McCleary