{"title":"Medication and nonmedication strategies","authors":"C. Rowland","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"104 1","pages":"NP - NP"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75980797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Reflections on Caring for an Aging Parent","authors":"M. Parker","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"1 1","pages":"255 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79920729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medications, genetics, and loss","authors":"C. Rowland","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"55 1","pages":"NP - NP"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91156263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Living with Grief: Alzheimer's Disease","authors":"D. Kuhn","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900415","url":null,"abstract":"This slender book is exactly what it advertises: a daughter’s guide to coping with the problems of caring for an aging parent. In this case, Lightbody uses unsent letters, journal entries, and highly personal reflections to talk about the long process of caring for her elderly mother with multiple disabilities. The book is intended to examine the impact of this kind of complex caregiving on the person, the family, and the community at large. This is an extremely personal book in which the author freely shares her complicated feelings of joy, anger, disappointment, apathy, sympathy, loss of hope, anger, and love during her caregiving career. The book is written in two parts. Part 1 is written in the form of a personal diary and deals with how Lightbody coped with the role reversal of becoming a “parent” to her own mother. Part 2, the central section, is a collection of unmailed letters to her mother that focus on such topics as her mother’s hearing problems, her blindness, her physical disabilities, her dementia, and her hallucinations. Each of these sections ends with a bulleted list describing ways of dealing with the various issues described. The letters also discuss ways of dealing with difficult people, address the specific financial and legal issues that arise, acknowledge the fact that there simply are no answers to some questions, and describe the many creative ways that Lightbody’s mother provoked guilt in her daughter. In the afterword, Lightbody points out that she wants her book to end on a hopeful, upbeat note. This is difficult, however, in that most of the letters and journal entries were written when the author was experiencing particularly tough spots in the relationship with her mother. A particularly useful feature of this book is the “Notes” section, listing the source of the quotes used throughout the book, and an “Index of Letter Topics,” which allows readers to zero in on a particular area of interest. Audrey Brown Lightbody is now retired in Claremont, California, from a lifetime of ecumenical and administrative ministries at both the local and national levels. Appropriate audiences for this book are clergy, nurses, and social workers seeking to work with elders and their families. Readers should be forewarned that this is not a research or fact-based book, but rather an intensely personal reflection on the frustrations of trying to care for someone in mental and physical decline. The book is well-written, but the content can make for difficult reading at times.","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"3 1","pages":"255 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80186949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practicalities and possibilities","authors":"C. Rowland","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900301","url":null,"abstract":": This paper discusses the historical context of the NSW AECG and the NSW Aboriginal Education Policy, and emphasises the need for culturally inclusive policies and effective implementation strategies. It also highlights the relationship between Indigenous educational disadvantage and colonisation, demonstrating the need for dominant educational frameworks to be inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"56 1","pages":"NP - NP"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79781413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Dementia Practice Guidelines for Treating Disturbing Behaviors","authors":"N. Richeson","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900206","url":null,"abstract":"The disturbing behaviors associated with dementia are a significant problem for older adults, their families, and their caregivers. By the year 2050, the incidence of dementia in the US is expected to climb to 14 million, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. The associated rise in disturbing behaviors will further affect the afflicted’s interpersonal relationships and quality of life, as well as opportunities to experience leisure. Dementia Practice Guidelines for Treating Disturbing Behaviors, a 400-page document, provides a long overdue systematic approach that will help recreational therapists treat these disturbing behaviors. The authors’ focus on the importance of including the best available evidence when formatting treatment decisions distinguishes this text from previous approaches to treatment in recreational therapy. The foundation of the dementia practice guidelines (DPG) is the merging of the Need-Driven DementiaCompromised Behavior (NDB) model and the Neurodevelopmental Sequencing Theory of Prescription (NDSP). The NDB model suggests that the disturbing behaviors of persons with dementia are not a symptom of the disease but rather an unmet need. The NDSP, developed by Buettner in the 1980s, is a comprehensive approach for treating the disturbing behaviors of frail older adults with dementia. While the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 has long promoted a nonpharmacologic approach to treatment, little has been done to promote alternative treatment interventions. The DPG promotes recreational therapy as the first line of defense, ahead of prescribed psychoactive medication, with its negative side effects. The section on recreational therapy outlines the 10 steps in treating disturbing behaviors, referencing them with appendix materials such as behavior checklists, physician order forms, and evaluation materials. The tools provided in the appendices will ensure a place for the DPG on the practitioner’s desk. Also helpful is a chart of more than 80 protocols that can help the practitioner select the appropriate intervention based on factors such as behavior, stage, level of dementia, and research findings. The criteria for selecting an intervention to decrease a behavior illustrates the application of evidence-based practice. DPG’s literature review incorporates an evidencebased grading system that lets the reader determine the strength of the research. The reference section includes a key to inform the reader if the article is research, literature, national guidelines, or theory. The life work of two researchers, the DPG demonstrates a groundbreaking contribution not just to the therapeutic recreation profession but also to healthcare in general. The focus on evidence-based practice using a nonpharmological approach to treating disturbing behaviors for persons with dementia is an important one. As the authors note, there are many unanswered questions, and for that reason, Dementia Practice Guidelines for Treating Disturbing","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"19 1","pages":"135 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85706124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Design for Assisted Living: Guidelines for Housing the Physically and Mentally Frail","authors":"Elizabeth Hirshom","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"10 1","pages":"136 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78549581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behaviors and concepts","authors":"C. Rowland","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"47 1","pages":"NP - NP"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82036108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memantine, ethics, and behavioral matters","authors":"C. Rowland","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"181 1","pages":"NP - NP"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80257204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accepting the Challenge","authors":"Jan Sharrow","doi":"10.1177/153331750401900113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750401900113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93865,"journal":{"name":"American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias","volume":"150 1","pages":"51 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75049843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}