Surviving Dementia A Clinical and Personal Perspective /

• Main Author: Berman, Carol W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public policy.; General practice (Medicine).; Geriatrics.; Primary care (Medicine).; Psychiatry.; Medicine & Public Health.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.; Public Policy.

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 psy...

Table of Contents:

• The Comfort of Denial
• Fear: The Catalyst That Breaks Denial
• Anxiety: Easier Than Anger
• Depression
• Anger:A Natural Response
• Bargaining:A COMMON WAY TO DELAY THE INEVITABLE
• Somatization: IS IT ONLY PHYSICAL
• Acting Out INSTEAD OF FEELING
• Control: Coping and Self-Assuredness: HEALTHY COPING MECHANISMS
• Intellectualization: HOW NOT TO INDULGE IN IT
• Humor: THE ULTIMATE DEFENSE
• Acceptance: THE ULTIMATE RELEASE
• Death: Hospice and After
• Resolution: ACCEPTANCE.