Dementia For Dummies – UK

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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