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Challenging behaviour in dementia
— a person-centred approach | | Author(s) | Graham Stokes |
| Publisher | Speechmark Publishing, Milton Keynes, 2000 |
| Pages | 256 pp (Speechmark editions series) |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Person-centred care ; Needs indicators ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Understanding socially disruptive behaviour in dementia is difficult. Most explanations offer neither solace nor practical help for families and carers, and treatment is often characterised by policies of control and containment. The author draws on 15 years of clinical work with people who are challenging. He disputes the traditional medical model of dementia; and, consistent with the new culture of dementia care, asserts that behind the barrier of cognitive devastation, it is possible to decipher cryptic messages showing that much behaviour is meaningful not meaningless. The author contrasts the medical interpretation that sees anti-social behaviour as mere symptoms of disease with a person-centred interpretation that looks for change and resolution and focuses on challenging behaviour as needs to be met rather than problems to be managed. Contents include: dementia 'no longer a silent epidemic'; assessment of behaviour in dementia; the 'medical disease' model of dementia; a person with dementia; the environmental context of dementia; the needs of people with dementia; taxonomies of possible explanations; behavioural, ecobehavioural and functional analysis; resolution therapy; resolution: needs to be met, not problems to be managed; working with unmet need; and the challenge of confusion. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160715002 B |
| Classmark | EA: EP: PAA: IK:3RI: 4C |
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