Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders / Caregiving: Research . Practice . Policy (PDF)
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Assisting someone with Alzheimer's disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer's disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from managing the person's finances to helping with intimate activities such as bathing and dressing.
Key coverage in Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders includes:
- Early diagnosis and family dynamics
- Emotional needs of caregivers
- Developmentally appropriate long-term care for people with Alzheimer's
- Family caregivers as members of the Alzheimer's treatment Team
- Legal and ethical issues for caregivers
- Faith and spirituality
- The economics of caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease
- Cultural, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic issues of minority caregivers
- Advances in Alzheimer's disease research
Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.
Ronda C. Talley, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Psychology at Western Kentucky University. Her prior work experience includes providing leadership on caregiving issues and organizational development as Executive Director of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving; working with national government groups to promote caregiving issues as Associate Director of Legislation, Policy, and Planning/Health Scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and promoting the science and practice of psychology in the schools as Associate Executive Director of Education and Director of School Policy and Practice at the American Psychological Association. Dr. Talley, as Adjunct Associate Professor, taught ethics and legal issues in school psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park.Dr. Talley received the Outstanding Alumni Award from Indiana University and the Jack Bardon Distinguished Service Award from the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She serves on the national board of the American Association of Caregiving Youth and is a member of the Indiana University School of Education National Board of Visitors.
- 2012, 2013, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Steven H. Zarit, Ronda C. Talley
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 1461453356
- ISBN-13: 9781461453352
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2012
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