Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies

Highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients with dementia. It presents the local and global challenges of these patients, also coupling foundational knowledge with specific strategies to overcome these challenges. The book examines the trajectory of the disease, offers stage-appropriate practices and strategies to improve quality of life, provides theoretical and practical frameworks that inform on ways to support and care for individuals living with dementia, includes evidence-based recommendations for research, and details global examples of care approaches that work.

Weaves research evidence and theories with practical know-how

Identifies support strategies for home, community, and health care settings

Provides stage-appropriate strategies relative to dementia severity

Summarizes dementia pathology, diagnosis, and progression

Considers the changing needs of both the individual with dementia and family and formal caregivers

Offers evidence-informed recommendations for research, practice, policy, and how to make things better at home, in the community, in healthcare and service settings, and through national policies

Provides local and global exemplars of what works

Provides case vignettes to illustrate key points with real examples

Contains brief conversations with national and international experts