Dementia Beyond Drugs ─ Changing the Culture of Care

Power, an internist and geriatrician specializing in caring for people with changing cognitive abilities, outlines holistic, relational approaches to dementia that do not use antipsychotic drugs. He notes the need to transform the care environment and discusses the current view of dementia and responses to it, medication trends, research for prescribing patterns, and problems with the current model of elder care. He then describes an experiential model of care in which people with advanced cognitive changes can experience well-being and growth without taking psychoactive medication and explains how to change from a biomedical to an experiential approach in all settings, as well as applications of the model to common issues and situations, such as language and communication, wandering, distress, paranoia, hallucinations, and delusions, ending with stories of environments making the transformation. This edition incorporates new research and examples and updated terminology, as well as new stories, initiatives, and resources. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)