Communication Skills for Effective Dementia Care

A Practical Guide to Communication and Interaction Training (Cait)
Herausgeber: James, Ian Andrew; Suomen Akatemia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This practical book teaches the communication skills healthcare staff need in their daily interactions with people with dementia. It sets out the authors' CAIT (Communication and Interaction Training) framework and features chapters on appropriate touch, communication with people with late stage dementia and recent national guidelines and research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9781785926235
• ISBN-10: 1785926233
• Artikelnr.: 54847559

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ian Andrew James and Laura Gibbons

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part 1. 1. Introduction to CAIT. 2. Understanding People's Needs.
3. General Communication - Inner hub. 4. Dementia Specific Communication -
Outer hub. 5. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Levels of Functioning -
Spokes. 6. Formulation-led approaches - Rim. Part 2. 7. Using Teepa Snow's
Positive Approach to Care(TM) (PAC(TM)) and GEMS(TM) to enhance care
givers' communication skills. Susannah Thwaites. 8. Promoting Consent to
touch during Personal Care. Luke Tanner. 9. Adaptive Interaction:
facilitating communication in advanced dementia. Dr Maggie Ellis &
Professor Arlene Astell. 10. What we have communicated and what next!