Dementia Care: Developing Partnerships in Practice

Trevor Adams, Charlotte Laura Clarke

Baillière Tindall, 1999 - Medical - 385 pages

This book provides a comprehensive research-based source of material, which focuses on the important issue of dementia and family care. It critically examines how dementia is defined, diagnosed and "treated" and provides a new environmentally focused approach to this challenging and growing issue for nurses and other care givers.

About the author

Jan Reed is Emeritus Professor of Healthcare for Older People at Northumbria University, UK.

Charlotte L. Clarke is Professor of Health in Social Science and Head of the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Ann Macfarlane OBE is an Independent Living and Equalities Consultant focusing on health and social care, UK.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dementia Care: Developing Partnerships in Practice
• Editors: Trevor Adams, Charlotte Laura Clarke
• Contributor: Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain)
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Baillière Tindall, 1999
• ISBN: 0702022780, 9780702022784
• Length: 385 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric