Dementia For Dummies – UK
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Atkins Simon. Dementia For Dummies – UK
Introduction
Part I. Could It Be Dementia?
Chapter 1. Checking Out the Facts on Dementia
Chapter 2. Spotting the Symptoms
Chapter 3. Looking at the Different Types of Dementia
Chapter 4. Considering Causes and Risk Factors
Chapter 5. Understanding the Stages of Dementia
Part II. Helping Someone Manage the Illness
Chapter 6. Getting a Diagnosis
Chapter 7. Medical Treatments in Dementia
Chapter 8. Considering Non-Medical Treatment
Chapter 9. Dealing with Troublesome Symptoms in Late Dementia
Part III. Providing Care for Your Loved One
Chapter 10. Recognising the Challenges Ahead
Chapter 11. Making Caring Easier
Chapter 12. Coping with Caring
Chapter 13. Sourcing Help: Working Your Way Around the System
Chapter 14. Sorting Out Benefits
Chapter 15. Addressing Legal Issues
Part IV. Sorting Out Domiciliary and Longer-Term Care
Chapter 16. Choosing Ongoing Care for Your Loved One
Chapter 17. Receiving Assistance from the State
Chapter 18. Helping the Care Home
Chapter 19. Knowing What to Do If the Person with Dementia Goes into Hospital
Chapter 20. Planning for the End of Someone’s Life
Part V. The Part of Tens
Chapter 21. Ten Tips for Dealing with Dementia
Chapter 22. Ten Tips for Caregivers, Friends and Families
Chapter 23. Busting Ten Myths about Dementia
Appendix A. Useful Contacts and Resources
Appendix B
About the Author
Dedication
Author’s Acknowledgments
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Pick up a newspaper or turn on the television or radio, and it won’t be long before you come across a reference to dementia. Either there’s been a breakthrough in research, or someone famous has been diagnosed with it, or an expert has decided that some food or other, which we’ve previously enjoyed without a second thought, is now believed to double our risk of developing the condition.
But its media popularity isn’t really that much of a shock, because dementia is on the rise. In fact, it’s reckoned that every four seconds someone somewhere in the world is diagnosed with dementia, so the number of cases is rising pretty fast.
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A much rarer sighting, people with Lewy body disease make up only 4 per cent of the number of dementia cases – an estimated 25,000 people. Lewy bodies are protein deposits that damage brain cells. They’re also found in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, and as a result an overlap exists in the symptoms of people with these two conditions.
The symptoms of Lewy body dementia are similar to those of Alzheimer’s, but sufferers also develop muscle stiffness, tremors and shakiness in their limbs, and slower movement. They can also experience visual hallucinations, commonly seeing animals or people around them that aren’t really there.
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