Finding the Light in Dementia: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers

'Finding the Light in Dementia: a guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers' is the essential self help book that explains common changes that can occur in people living with dementia. By offering valuable approaches, tips and suggestions interspersed with caregivers' stories, the reader can learn to care for and maintain a connection with their care partner. Whether you're a spouse, partner, daughter, son, sibling, friend, parent or paid caregiver, this book is for you. Finding the Light in Dementia will help give you more confidence to care by:

• Supporting you through a diagnosis of dementia


• Helping you understand what your care partner is experiencing


• Teaching you ways to communicate and connect with each other


• Helping you make subtle changes to your home to help your care partner feel safe and content


• Introducing practical and creative ways to stimulate memories to help with day to day living


• Showing you how to create lifestories together


• Suggesting ways to keep your care partner interested and engaged in meaningful activities


• Providing tips for sleeping, eating and drinking


• Suggesting ways to help your partner with their appearance and dignity


• Showing you ways of overcoming the challenges of changing behaviour, reactions and responses


• Helping reduce the effects of hallucinations, delusions and misperceptions


• Suggesting ways for you to care for yourself


• Involving families and friends


• Giving advice when considering professional care at home and in residential care

Knowing how tired and stressed you may feel, 'Finding the Light in Dementia' is written in bite sized chunks that makes it easy to follow. By giving you space to write down any points you would like to make and providing question sheets for you to refer to when speaking with your doctor and/or legal professionals you can make this your personal guide. When following the approaches in this book, you should find that your partner will feel more understood and you will become calmer thereby helping you both find a sense of connection and continue to live well.

Author: Jane M. Mullins
Publisher: Duetcare
Published: 12/20/2017
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781999926809

About the Author
Mullins, Jane M.: - Jane M. Mullins is a dementia nurse consultant who has devoted over 25 years to the study and practice of dementia care. Through listening to and supporting people and their families during their diagnosis in memory clinics, caring for people who have dementia in hospital and in care homes, she has helped people throughout all of the stages of their condition. When managing a Nursing Home, she has supported their transition from home to residential care using lifestories as a guide to planning their life and care throughout their remaining years. This has also included supporting their partners, families and friends. Her particular passions are finding ways to communicate through music, nature and art as a way to helping people feel well and valued while living with dementia. Jane has uncovered certain common features that may help caregivers and the people they care for find better ways of coping, you can find these in her new book: Finding the Light in Dementia, a Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers. Her extensive practice experience is backed up by expert knowledge gained from keeping up with research, attending conferences, seminars, investigator meetings, lecturing and studying for her PhD; A suitcase full of memories: a sensory ethnography of dementia. She explores sensory, creative and intuitive ways of communicating with those living with dementia. Her passion of spreading the word about how to connect with and help those affected by dementia also shines through in her columns in the Mature Times, Mumbles Times and Cardiff Times.Fawcett, Carole: - Carole Fawcett is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and qualified Counsellor as well as a book editor. The fact that Carole is a qualified counsellor has proved invaluable in understanding and helping writers communicate the ethos and nature of their work through their writing. Her editing approach and personable style helps writers feel less isolated and supported.