Dementia Awareness Week 2 0 – 2 6 M a y 2 0 1 2
‘Dementia’ is a term used to describe a serious
loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person. Symptoms include
memory loss, difficulty with communication and reasoning and mood changes. Dementia is progressive, and the most common
manifestations are Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Dementia
Awareness Week aims to raise
awareness and to ‘remember the person’ behind the disease.
You can find out more about
dementia here at the health library. In the lists below you’ll find our most
popular items, information on materials recently added to our collection and
available periodicals. To locate these items simply go to our online catalogue
or ask at the counter.
M o s
t P o p u l a r
- Hearing the voice of people with dementia: opportunitiesand obstacles / by Malcolm Goldsmith
- Dementia: challenges and new directions / edited by Susan
Hunter
- Dementia reconsidered: the person comes first / by Tom
Kitwood
N e
w t o
S t o c k
- Risk assessment and management for living well withdementia / Charlotte L. Clarke, 2011
- Creative approaches in dementia care / edited by Hilary
Lee and Trevor Adams, 2011
- Practical management of dementia: a multi-professionalapproach / edited by Stephen Curran and John P. Wattis, 2011
P e r i o
d i c a l s
- Journal of dementiacare/ Hawker Publications (from 1993 to present)
- Dementia/ Sage Publications (2002-2011/ 2011 onwards
available via electronic access only)
For more information
go to www.alzheimers.org.uk/remembertheperson
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