This dementia book aims to develop the skills required for appropriate care knowledge. The following topics are included:
Research and statistics
Diagrams of the brain
Symptoms of dementia
Types of dementia
One-on-one care
Person-centred approaches
There are a number of activities in the book designed to further your learning. These activities cover; Mental capacity and promoting independence for patients, how to safeguard dementia sufferers and support networks that can help, health and wellbeing and the care setting, encouraging communication and personal care, symptoms, medications and treatments and complementary therapies, policies and procedure and legislation and guidance.