Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care: A Guide to Good Practice
Pam Schweitzer
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Description for Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care: A Guide to Good Practice
Paperback. This practical guide is designed to give those who care for people with dementia a clear sense of how reminiscence can be used to greatly improve their quality of life. The book explores how reminiscence can contribute to person-centred dementia care and contains detailed descriptions of activities that can be used in a variety of care settings. Series: Bradford Dementia Group. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Reminiscence is a vital way to stimulate communication and promote confidence and self-worth in people with dementia. This practical guide is designed to give those who care for people with dementia a clear sense of how reminiscence can be used to greatly improve their quality of life.
The book explores how reminiscence can contribute to person-centred dementia care and contains detailed descriptions of activities that can be used in a group setting, for one-to-one reminiscence at home or in a variety of care settings. Based on ideas developed and tested internationally over a period of ten years, the book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843106494
SKU
V9781843106494
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Pam Schweitzer
Pam Schweitzer became fascinated by reminiscence and oral history after many years working in Theatre in Education and Educational Drama. In 1983, she founded Age Exchange Theatre Trust, the first full-time professional theatre company to specialise in reminiscence theatre. For the last decade she has been actively developing reminiscence projects for people with dementia and their carers. In 2000, she ... Read more
Reviews for Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care: A Guide to Good Practice
This is an exceptionally important book that celebrates the interdependency of human beings, the virtues of the education of carers and the positive treatment of people with dementia... In describing in exquisite and profound, but necessary, detail how to create and re-create a wonderfully sensitive approach to caring for people with dementia, the authors have conveyed some of the most ... Read more