This book looks at the role nurses play when working with people who have dementia, and their relatives. It builds on person-centered and relationship-centered approaches to develop a systemic guide for practice that focuses on the family. "Dementia Care Nursing" is a fascinating insight into the field, which outlines approaches that may be used by nurses within practice and provides advice on how dementia care may be developed and enhanced.

Table of Contents

Introduction; T.Adams - Nursing People with Dementia and their family members; T.Adams - People's Experience of having Dementia; T.Adams - Dementia: Understanding the Neurological contribution as a carer's basis to nursing practice; E.Anderson - The Family's experience of dementia; T.Adams - Nursing people with dementia and their family members - towards a whole systems approach; T.Adams - Assessment and care planning within dementia care nursing; T.Adams - Communication between people with dementia, family members and nurses; T.Adams - Activity and Interventions with people who have dementia and their family members; T.Adams - Dementia care nursing, emotional labour and clinical supervision; I.Eyers & T.Adams - Clinical Settings, competences and skills in dementia care nursing; T.Adams - Social policy and relationship centred dementia nursing; L.Forbat - Developing an ethical basis for relationship centred and inclusive approaches towards dementia care nursing; T.Brannelly - Dementia care nursing: the legal framework; S.Hodges - Where we are now and how dementia care nursing should move forward; T.Adams

About the Author

TREVOR ADAMS is Lecturer in Mental Health, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK, and has published widely in the field of Dementia. He is Mental Health Pathway Leader on the MSc Advance Practice course, and Module Leader for dementia care modules on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Surrey. He is also Assistant Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.