Living a good life with Dementia: A practitioner's guide [Hardcover]

A practical guide to helping those living with dementia live their best life in a way that makes sense to them.

Essential reading for anyone working with people living with dementia, this book explains the concept of Self-Directed Support and Care for people living with dementia and links the various Person Centred approaches within dementia care with Person Centred Planning and Community based approaches. As the content unfolds, the concept of the Dementia Care Triad (people living with dementia, unpaid carers and professional carers) is explored and developed further to include the layer of community.?The links between the health and social care legal context, guidance documents and national dementia strategies are presented with good, actionable practice, approaches, tools and informed advice to achieve Person Centred dementia care and support, with an emphasis on communities

Living a Good Life with Dementia will help professionals and carers gain knowledge and insight to be able to develop creative ideas for the care and support they want to have in place.

With a degree in journalism, Jayna Patel enjoyed using her investigation skills to help Liz?create a practical and valuable resource for informal carers supporting someone living with?dementia. As a Content Writer for health and wellbeing app, Evergreen Life, she understood?the importance of balancing the need for the book to be thoroughly researched, with the?requirement for it to written accessibly. Jayna had more of a marketing background than?a health and social care one, having previously worked as an account manager at a web?design and digital marketing agency for six years, meaning she was ideally placed to?ensure the content was conveyed in an easy-to follow, jargon-free way  as well as tidy up?all the references!

Liz Leach Murphy