Community Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-335-22601-6
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

"it should be compulsory reading for any nurse working with people who have dementia and should be a core text on courses used to train this profession." Dementia

"I'd recommend this book to any health professional working in dementia care. Its commitment to breaking down inter-disciplinary barriers makes it universally applicable." Mental Health Today

A rounded account of Community Mental Health Nurses' practice in dementia care has been long overdue. This is the first book to focus on the role of Community Mental Health Nurses in their highly valued work with both people with dementia and their families.

This book:

- Explores the complexity and diversity of Community Mental Health Nurse work

- Captures perspectives from along the trajectory of dementia

- Identifies assessment and intervention approaches

- Discusses an emerging evidence base for implications in practice

Contributions to this collection of essays and articles are drawn from Community Mental Health Nurse practitioners and researchers at the forefront of their fields.

It is key reading for practitioners, researchers, students, managers and policy makers in the field of community mental health nursing and/or dementia care.

Contributors: Trevor Adams, Peter Ashton, Gill Boardman, Angela Carradice, Chris Clark, Charlotte L. Clarke, Jan Dewing, Sue Hahn, Mark Holman, John Keady, Kath Lowery, Jill Manthorpe, Cathy Mawhinney, Anne Mason, Paul McCloskey, Anne McKinley, Linda Miller, Gordon Mitchell, Elinor Moore, Michelle Murray, Mike Nolan, Peter Nolan, Tracy Packer, Sean Page, Marilla Pugh, Helen Pusey, Assumpta Ryan, Alison Soliman, Vicki Traynor, Dot Weaks, Heather Wilkinson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keady, John

Clarke, Charlotte

Adams, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editorial note
Foreword by Professor Mike Nolan
Introduction
Part One: Setting the scene: the landscape of contemporary community mental health nursing practice in dementia care
Voices from the past: the historical alignment of dementia care to nursing

Integrating practice and knowledge in a clinical context

Multidisciplinary teamworking
"We put our heads together"
Risk and dementia
Part Two: Dementia care nursing in the community: assessment and practice approaches
Assessment and therapeutic approaches for community mental health nursing dementia care practice
Cognitive-behavioural interventions in dementia
Turning rhetoric into reality
From screening to intervention
The community mental health nurse role in sharing a diagnosis of dementia
Group therapy
Psychosocial interventions with family carers of people with dementia
Admiral nurses
Normalization as a philosophy of dementia care
Assessing and responding to challenging behaviour in dementia
Part Three: Leading and developing community mental health nursing in dementia
Clinical supervision and dementia care
Multi-agency and inter-agency working
Higher level practice
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. John Keady worked for a number of years as a Community Mental Health Nurse in a community dementia team in North West Wales before moving into teaching and research at the University of Wales, Bangor in July 1993. John has maintained an active interest in dementia care and is founding and co-editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.

Charlotte Clarke is Professor of Nursing Practice Development at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. Her interest in dementia care spans 15 years and combines with more recent work in service and practice development. Charlotte co-edited the text Dementia Care: Developing Partnerships in Practice with Dr. Trevor Adams.

Dr. Trevor Adams has worked within dementia care for over twenty years. Initially, he worked with people with dementia in hospital settings and then as a Community Mental Health Nurse. Trevor has contributed to research and the development of practice within community mental health nursing and is particularly interested in commmunication in community mental health nursing.