Alzheimer's & Dementia

Providing people with dementia with opportunities to engage in creative activity can play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing communication...

Focusing on theoretical, policy and practice issues which are increasingly identified as key priorities, the contributors to this important book ex...

Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the i...

When Ronan Smith was in his twenties, his father, the theatre impresario Brendan Smith, developed obvious signs of early onset Alzheimers disease b...

In People with Dementia Speak Out, twenty-three people from diverse backgrounds share their experiences of living with dementia. The contributors a...

Advocating doll therapy as an intervention for people with dementia, this book combines theory and evidence to show its many benefits and present g...

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopki...

This book is a must read for those wanting to understand, design and improve our approach to workforce knowledge in dementia care.Paul Edwards, Dir...

*Highly Commended in the Health and Social Care category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*Behaviours that challenge can signific...

The award-winning PEARL (Positively Enriching and enhancing Residents' Lives) programme was developed to enable care homes to move from providing g...

Introducing life story work, a way for people with dementia to connect with their relatives, carers and the professionals working with them. This e...

Dispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individ...