Product Description: Risk is central to professional practice, assessment and decision-making in dementia care. Yet theories of risk are often complex and difficult to translate into everyday practice. This book outlines some of the key issues in risk perception, assessment and management in dementia care in a way that is both practical and accessible to a range of practitioners...read more

Involving 'users' and carers in healthcare service delivery has grown in popularity over the years. This book uses case studies alongside commentary to explore the use of these participatory methods in practice across fields such as dementia, mental health, learning disability, ageing and potentially midwifery/motherhood.

Product Description: Families often wrestle with the decision to move a person with dementia into a care home. The decision can be highly charged and emotional, involving feelings of loss, sadness and guilt. Moreover, developing a good relationship between the family and the care home is not an easy matter...read more

Product Description: "How useful is this book? I have referred to it often, and found myself quoting information and models of care from it. I lent it to a colleague to prepare a presentation on 'challenging behaviour' to our local carers' group and he thought it was an excellent resource...read more

Product Description: * What are the key features of partnerships between family and professional carers?* How do partnerships change over time?* What is needed to help create the best working partnerships?Forging partnerships between service users, family carers and service providers is a key theme in both the policy and academic literatures...read more

Product Description: A rounded account of Community Mental Health Nurses (CMHNs) practice in dementia care has been long overdue. This is the first book to focus on the role of CMHNs in their highly valued work with both people with dementia and their families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Despite the growth of interest in dementia and dementia care over the past two decades, services and interventions for younger people with dementia and their carers remain, on the whole, fragmented and poorly developed. The focus of social, psychological and biomedical research has been almost exclusively on older people and their carers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How are the burdens and difficulties of care giving balanced by the satisfactions experienced? How do the demands of care giving change over time and what are the policy and practice implications of such changes? How is a balance achieved between the needs of the caregiver and the cared-for person? The importance of family (informal) care both in making a reality of community care policies and in helping to sustain the quality of life of people who require support to remain within their homes is beyond doubt...read more