This text approaches the care of dementia patients via the experience of a psychiatrist as well as a caregiver, offering a holistic approach to care that is unlike any other book in the market. Laced with her experiences from both her professional and personal life,
Huffington Post columnist and psychiatrist Dr. Carol W. Berman aims to educate mental health professionals on topics that they continue to grapple with, including diagnosis and treatment, behavioral challenges among patients, working with non-professional and professional caregivers, hospice care, and many other difficulties professionals face when caring for dementia patients. With the same easy-to-read yet informative tone Dr. Carol W. Berman is known for among her various clinical and lay resources, professionals find that this tool is an excellent resource for structuring care plans with the non-professional caregiver struggling with care management.
Surviving Dementia: A Clinical and Personal Perspective is an outstanding resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and other physicians interested in models of dementia care.
Chapter One: The Comfort of Denial:
Before the patient is diagnosed everyone is in denial. This includes doctors, family members, caregivers, and of course the patient himself. I give examples, including my own denial of my husbands LBD. At the end of the chapter, I discuss ways in which the clinician can recognize the signs of the various dementias.
Chapter Two: Fear: The Catalyst That Breaks Denial:
I describe two incidents that broke through my denial. Then I take the reader to the neurologists office with me when he made the diagnosis of LBD for my husband. The chapter explains how to break through thel๓3
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