Dementia Care

Trevor Adams PhD MSc RMN RGN Cert Ed. CPN Cert. Lecturer in Mental Health, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Trevor Adams is a Lecturer in Mental Health at the European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey. Following mental health nurse and general nurse training, Trevor worked as a Community Psychiatric Nurse Specialising in Older People in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Following completing of the Certificate in Community Psychiatric Nursing at Manchester Polytechnic, Trevor went into nursing education. Trevor completed a MSc Nursing Studies (Brunel University) and has a PhD on Community Mental Health Nursing (University of Surrey). Trevor has written widely on Community Mental Health Nursing to People with Dementia and co-edited "Dementia Care: Developing Partnerships in Practice" (1999) with Dr Charlotte Clarke published by Baillière Tindall. Jill Manthorpe MA Reader in Community Care, Department of Social Work and Community Health, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, UK Jill Manthorpe is Reader in Community Care at the University of Hull. She has worked in the voluntary sector for many years and is currently Chair of the Hull and East Riding Adult Protection Committee and Chair of the Hull Carers' Strategy Group. She is Vice-Chair of the Social Services Research Group.

Contents
Section 1
Approaches to Practice
1 Constructing dementia
Trevor Adams and Ruth Bartlett
2 Valuing people with dementia
Helen Bartlett and Wendy Martin
3 Policy and practice in dementia care
Jill Manthorpe and Trevor Adams

Person centred practice
4 Working with people in the early stages of dementia
Lindsay Rowan
5 Managing language and communication difficulties in Alzeimer’s
dementia: the link to behaviour
Karen Bryan and Jane Maxim
6 Counselling people with dementia
Elizabeth Bartlett and Richard Cheston
7 Addressing the physical care needs of people with dementia
Roger Watson
8 Caring for people with dementia
Kay de Vries
9 Remebering and forgetting: Group work with people who have
dementia
Richard Cheston, Kerry Jones and Jane Gilliard
10 Positive communication with people who have dementia
Jonathan Parker
11 Working with young people with dementia
Maria Parsons
Practice systems
12 Helping families cope with dementiaAlison Marriott
13 Developing ethnically sensitive and appropriate dementia care
practice
Anthea Innes
14 Supporting and supervising in dementia careMark Holman
15 Elder abuse and people with dementia
Bridget Pendale
16 Maintaining quality in dementia care practiceDawn Brooker