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Comforting the confused : strategies for managing dementia / Stephanie B. Hoffman, Constance A. Platt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Stephanie B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dementia--Patients--Care.
- Dementia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""How to comfort? How to help?"" are questions often asked by persons providing care to individuals suffering from dementia. According to Hoffman and Platt--a warm smile, gentle touch, and soothing voice tone can help toward improving quality of life. The authors believe caregivers should be encouraged to emphasize non-verbal aspects of their communication throughout their daily care of the demented. Hoffman and Platt provide research-based, practical guidelines for communicating with dementia patients and offer strategies for responding to depression, aggression, wandering, and other behavior
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Dementia-An Overview; I: Communication Issues; II: Dementing Illnesses; III: Management Issues; IV: Special Issues; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-76569-4
- 9786611765699
- 0-8261-1716-3
- OCLC:
- 437109783
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