skip to content
The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss in later life
ClosePreview this item

The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss in later life

Author: Nancy L Mace; Peter V Rabins
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Series: Johns Hopkins health book.
Edition/Format:   Large print book : English : 3rd ed., large printView all editions and formats
Summary:
A guide to caring for those who can no longer take care of themselves offers information on hospice care and assisted living facilities, types of demetia, nutrition and medication, and new driving laws for the elderly.
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nancy L Mace; Peter V Rabins
ISBN: 0801865212 9780801865213
OCLC Number: 44270566
Description: xxxii, 573 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword --
Preface --
Acknowledgements --
Preface to the first edition --
[ch.] 1. Dementia --
[ch.] 2. Getting medical help for the impaired person --
[ch.] 3. Characteristic problems of dementia --
[ch.] 4. Problems in independent living --
[ch.] 5. Problems arising in daily care --
[ch.] 6. Medical problems --
[ch.] 7. Problems of behavior --
[ch.] 8. Problems of mood --
[ch.] 9. Special arrangements if you become ill --
[ch.] 10. Getting outside help --
[ch.] 11. You and the impaired person as parts of a family --
[ch.] 12. How caring for an impaired person affects you --
[ch.] 13. Caring for yourself --
[ch.] 14. For children and teenagers --
[ch.] 15. Financial and legal issues --
[ch.] 16. Nursing homes and other living arrangements ---
[ch.] 17. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia --
[ch.] 18. Research in dementia --
appendix 1. Further reading --
appendix 2. Organizations --
appendix 3. Locating your state office on aging and state nursing home ombudsman --
appendix 4. Nursing home residents' right --
Index.
Series Title: Johns Hopkins health book.
Other Titles: Thirty-six hour day
Responsibility: Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins.
More information:

Abstract:

A guide to giving care to people with Alzheimer disease. This third edition is written in large print and retains the structure, scope and purpose of the original book, while updating chapters to  Read more...

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

Read more...

 
User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44270566>
library:hasCarrierlibrary:Volume
library:oclcnum"44270566"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/44270566>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:author
schema:bookEdition"3rd ed., large print."
schema:bookFormatlibrary:LargePrintBook
schema:contributor
schema:datePublished"2000"
schema:description"A guide to caring for those who can no longer take care of themselves offers information on hospice care and assisted living facilities, types of demetia, nutrition and medication, and new driving laws for the elderly."
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss in later life"
schema:numberOfPages"573"
schema:publisher
rdf:typeschema:Organization
schema:name"Johns Hopkins University Press"
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.