Newcastle University

A new book on caring for people with dementia has been published. One of the editors is Julian Hughes of the IAH who also contributed to several chapters. Bob Barber and Louise Robinson of the IAH also contributed as did Alice Jordan who gained her MD through IAH last year.

Supportive Care for the Person with Dementia

Edited by: Julian C Hughes (Old Age Psychiatry, Newcastle and North Tyneside), Mari Lloyd-Williams (Palliative Care, Liverpool) and Greg A Sachs (Medicine, Indiana, USA).

Published by Oxford University Press in 2010.

Publishers description:

‘Supportive care can be thought of as an extension of the palliative experience so that the person with dementia receives good quality, holistic care that makes no distinctions between the dichotomies of care and cure from the time of diagnosis until, and beyond, death. It recognizes the need for an inter-disciplinary approach and for a continuity of treatment. Supportive care in dementia must, therefore, be broad in its scope and application.

Supportive Care for the Person with Dementia provides just such a broad and full perspective, drawing upon the experience and expertise of a wide range of internationally-based professionals to outline a model of support that will provide good quality and holistic care for people with dementia. Making use of real-life reports from both patients and carers to help readers fully understand the reality of dementia, the book examines the key principles that guide the practice of supportive care. It looks at how it can be used, and the specific benefits a care model of this type can bring to the complex problems that are frequently encountered when treating this condition.

It is an ideal resource for all clinicians who are part of an interdisciplinary team caring for sufferers with this debilitating illness.’