Community Mental Health Nursing And Dementia Care

Dr. John Keady worked for a number of years as a Community Mental Health Nurse in a community dementia team in North West Wales before moving into teaching and research at the University of Wales, Bangor in July 1993. John has maintained an active interest in dementia care and is founding and co-editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. Charlotte Clarke is Professor of Nursing Practice Development at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. Her interest in dementia care spans 15 years and combines with more recent work in service and practice development. Charlotte co-edited the text Dementia Care: Developing Partnerships in Practice with Dr. Trevor Adams. Dr. Trevor Adams has worked within dementia care for over twenty years. Initially, he worked with people with dementia in hospital settings and then as a Community Mental Health Nurse. Trevor has contributed to research and the development of practice within community mental health nursing and is particularly interested in commmunication in community mental health nursing.

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editorial note
Foreword by Professor Mike Nolan
Introduction
Part One: Setting the scene: the landscape of contemporary community mental health nursing practice in dementia care
Voices from the past: the historical alignment of dementia care to nursing
Integrating practice and knowledge in a clinical context
Multidisciplinary teamworking
"We put our heads together"
Risk and dementia


Part Two: Dementia care nursing in the community: assessment and practice approaches
Assessment and therapeutic approaches for community mental health nursing dementia care practice
Cognitive-behavioural interventions in dementia
Turning rhetoric into reality
From screening to intervention
The community mental health nurse role in sharing a diagnosis of dementia
Group therapy
Psychosocial interventions with family carers of people with dementia
Admiral nurses
Normalization as a philosophy of dementia care
Assessing and responding to challenging behaviour in dementia


Part Three: Leading and developing community mental health nursing in dementia
Clinical supervision and dementia care
Multi-agency and inter-agency working
Higher level practice
Index.