A Loved One with Dementia

Insights and Tips for Teenagers

Jean Rawitt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

150 Seiten

2020
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781538136980 (ISBN)

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This book addresses the challenges teenagers may face when a family member has dementia. It offers valuable information and support, with stories from young adults themselves and interviews with adults who know and care for people with dementia.

A Loved One with Dementia: Insights and Tips for Teenagers offers insight into what dementia is and how you can interact positively with and assist someone who has dementia. Featuring personal anecdotes from young people who have gone through this themselves, and with thoughtful advice from professionals, it is a much-needed guide for those who want to help someone they care about.

You will learn
The personal impact of a devastating diseaseSuggestions for activities throughout the different stages of dementiaWays to understand and deal with feelings of helplessness, anger, grief, and frustration that often affect those who love someone with dementia
With helpful tips and a list of resources, this book provides practical advice and supportive suggestions for how you can understand and grow from the difficulties you and your family may face. It shows how you can not only help someone with dementia, but also find understanding and joy in loving them.

Jean Rawitt is a freelance writer and a consultant for the Department of Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York). For ten years, she oversaw the Varsity Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai where she developed and coordinated a program to recruit, train, supervise and mentor high-school students as volunteers on hospital inpatient units. She is the author of Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers ( R&L, 2020).

You Are Not Alone
PART I: WHAT IS DEMENTIA
1: What Is Dementia?
2: What Does Dementia Look Like?
PART II: EXPECTATIONS AND CHALLENGES
3: What to Expect
4: What You Can Do to Help Someone with Dementia
5: How Does Dementia Affect Family and Friends?
6: Activities to Share with Someone with Dementia
PART III: WHAT’S NEXT?
7: Facing Death and the Rituals of Death and Mourning
8: How You Can Help Yourself during Difficult Times
Notes
Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Empowering You
Zusatzinfo	9 colour illustrations; 35 textboxes
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 218 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität
ISBN-13	9781538136980 / 9781538136980
Zustand	Neuware