Dementia, Law and Ethics
Written by Julian C. Hughes, Aileen Beatty and Charlotte Emmett When a book is written by three people, there are two very natural questions. First,…
Category: Dementia
A Clinician’s Guide to Non-Pharmacological Dementia Therapies
Written by Dr Daniel J Nightingale. Every 3 seconds someone in the world is diagnosed with a primary form of dementia. This may be a…
Dementia-Friendly Communities in 2020
Written by Susan McFadden, Ph.D. It has been a year since I submitted the final manuscript for my book Dementia-Friendly Communities: Why We Need Them…
Pandemic Challenges for Dementia-Friendly Communities
Written by Susan H. McFadden On October 31, 2019, I submitted the final manuscript to Jessica Kingsley Publishers for my book titled Dementia-Friendly Communities: Why…
#WorldAlzheimersDay2020
This years theme of #WorldAlzheimersDay is Dementia. A dementia diagnosis can result in people feeling very alone, we hope our books can help those affected.…
Resilience and Life with Uncertainty
Julie Christie, the author of the recently published title “Promoting Resilience in Dementia Care” has applied resilience to the current climate and shared the things…
Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care; Evidence-Based Practice
Take a read to learn more about Jill Manthorpe and Esme Moniz-Cook’s latest JKP publication, Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care. Timely or early? That…
Breaking down barriers to using music in dementia care
‘There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to over 1 million by 2025.’(1) ‘Worldwide, around 50 million…
The Art of Dying by Nicola Kendall
Author of Namaste Care for People Living with Advanced Dementia, Nicola Kendall, discusses the art of dying, and the conversations we should be having with…
Do we need to enforce ‘silos’ in our thinking about cognitive impairment?
JKP author Shibley Rahman discusses how person-centred care is not defining individuals by disease entities, but addressing people’s diverse needs and looking at multi-faceted aspects…