Robert B. Santulli

The Alzheimer's Family: Helping Caregivers Cope (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Responding to families' questions and fears with compassion.

Typically the patientand his or her course of treatmentare the natural focal points when it comes to Alzheimer's disease (AD). But Alzheimer's is an equally debilitating illness for family members and caregivers who must come to terms with its far-reaching emotional and physical burdens.

In this handbook, clinicians are taught how to navigate the many interpersonal issues at the heart of ADthat is, how to work with the families and friends of the patient. Santulli addresses everything from how to respond compassionately to their likely questions and concerns, how to clearly explain symptoms and risk factors, when to suggest consultation with a geriatric specialist, and how to sensitively
discuss issues of long-term treatment and care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393707670
• Artikelnr.: 59591925

Autorenporträt

Robert B. Santulli, MD, is associate professor of psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School, and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is also the editor of the Dartmouth Memory Clinic Handbook.

Rezensionen

Dr. Santulli helps the clinician understand the family dynamics when one member of the family becomes ill with a life-changing illness such as Alzheimer's. The clinician learns how to help the family cope, and pull together, and become a family of caregivers.... When the family truly understands their situation, knows what's ahead for them, and has a clinician who understands their needs through all the stages of Alzheimer's, everyone is better equipped to copy.... [W]ill help physicians and clinicians understand and become expert at coping and assisting families and loved ones as they face the crisis of Alzheimer's.