Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is dementia? / Tom Dening and M.B. Sandilyn -- Diagnosis of dementia / Tom Dening and M.B. Sandilyn -- Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia / Tom Dening and M.B. Sandilyn -- Diagnosis and support for younger people with dementia / Hilda Hayo -- Best practice in caring for adults with dementia and learning disabilities -- chris knifton -- Person-centred dementia care / Caroline Baker -- Person-centred communication / Jan Leeks -- Psychosocial approaches to behaviours that challenge / Esme Moniz-Cook -- Ethical issues in caring for a person with dementia / Julian Hughes and Aileen Beatty -- Using risk management to promote person-centred dementia care / Charlotte Clarke and Sarah Rynas -- Safeguarding / Jill Manthorpe and Stephen Martineau -- Sexuality in dementia / Jane Youell -- Supporting decision making in dementia / Jill Manthorpe -- Advance care planning in dementia / Karen Harrison-Dening -- Spirituality and dementia care / Helen Scott -- Supporting family and carers of people with dementia / Zena Aldridge -- Multi morbidity and frailty in dementia / Frances Bunn and Claire Goodman -- Delirium and dementia / Angela Moore -- Pain in dementia / Liz Sampson -- Pallaitive and end of life care in dementia / Karen Harrison Dening -- Care of people with dementia in the community / Jo Moriarty -- Care of people with dementia in a primary care setting / Steve Iliffe -- Caring for people with dementia in the acute hospital setting / Katie Featherstone and Andrew Northcott -- Care of people with dementia in the care home setting / Caroline Baker -- Caring for people with dementia in a hospice setting / Sharron Tolman.

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This essential textbook on dementia care introduces the knowledge that nurses need, including the evidence base for practice and the guidance to transfer this newly acquired knowledge into everyday practice. Each of the 25 chapters are written by experts in the field of dementia care and are grounded in thoroughly researched, up-to-date evidence, have a direct bearing to nurse practice, and use case studies to give examples of application of the evidence to practice. It begins by introducing dementia as a diagnosis, a syndrome, and a set of diseases, signs and symptoms. It then deals with various principles that underpin dementia care, including person-centred care, behaviours that challenge, risk management, and understanding relationships affected by dementia. Finally, it assesses dementia care across a range of care settings, such as primary care, care homes, domiciliary care, acute hospital, and hospice services.