UK Price: £38.99
Format: Spiral bound
Pages: 136
Published: 21/06/2002
ISBN: 9780863883125
Order Code: 0025026W
Status:
Available & in print
This informative manual draws on expert research to highlight the feeding and swallowing difficulties that can occur with dementia. It is also a practical guide that offers potential strategies to manage these problems.
· Professionals are encouraged to focus on the needs of the individual by providing practical questions that should be asked when making an assessment. This is achieved through a step-by-step process, which allows a worker to observe, document and manage feeding and swallowing difficulties. Forms, schedules and checklists that can be photocopied are provided to aid in implementation.
· This is a detailed, practical resource which offers support and direction for speech & language therapists, and others with an interest in swallowing problems, working with people with dementia.
· Includes case studies to illustrate theory in practice, as well as a wide ranging bibliography.Contents:
Introduction; Dementia; Production and use of this resource pack; History taking - feeding and swallowing problems; Assessment and management of feeding and swallowing; Assessment profiles; Management strategies - checklists; Bibliography. Reviews:
"A detailed, extremely practical book ... This book's value is in its thorough treatment of this often complex area of clinical work ... undoubtedly a valuable source of information."
RCSLT Bulletin
"This practical, spiral-bound book is a popular and useful text ... recommended to neuroscience nurses ... should be in every nursing library."
British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing |
