Understanding Dementia Format:Trade Paperback Steeped in the experience of

Steeped in the experience of the authors

Phoebe Caldwell's remarkable new book makes accessible for the first time the complex

uninhibited energy Brian Adams has experienced since his mid-twenties

and few members of the caring professions have any training in this field

Understanding Dementia Format:Trade Paperback Steeped in the experience ofOver the last ten years a number of new concepts have emerged within social psychology, gerontology, socio linguistics and psychotherapy which present a challenge to the view of dementia as simply an organic illness. These ideas have led to service innovations including the development of support groups for people with dementia; the adaptation of psychotherapeutic approaches to this client group; and the development of methods of care evaluation from