Promoting Resilience in Dementia Care: A Person-Centred Framework for Assessment and Support Planning

by Julie Christie, Wendy Mitchell (Foreword by), Mary Marshall (Foreword by)

Overview

This practice-focussed resource shows dementia care professionals how to harness resilience in their daily practice when working with people living with dementia. Nurturing and developing resilience can hugely improve quality of life for people living with dementia, and as such it is an important tool for practitioners to provide targeted, meaningful support that fits into the lives of people with dementia and care partners.

This book guides readers through the key concepts of resilience within the context of dementia and explains the unique challenges and opportunities of developing resilience in this situation. It also provides real-world examples of resilience in dementia assessment and care and suggests clear frameworks for applying resilience in daily practice, as well as template assessment sheets. A practical and accessible resource, this book helps professionals ensure that people with dementia are treated as individuals actively engaged in their own lives and in the care which they receive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785926006
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	02/21/2020
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Julie Christie is the UK and Europe region manager for The Dementia Centre at HammondCare, an established international centre for research, education, consultancy and a care provider based in Australia. She is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, and co-founded the dementia PhD forum on Twitter (#demphd). Julie is also a registered social worker and has a PhD. She has held nursing roles and managed integrated health and social care teams.. She lives in Glasgow, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword Wendy Mitchell 9

Foreword Professor Mary Marshall 11

Acknowledgements 13

Preface 15

The Resilience Model 19

Introduction: What is Resilience? 23

1 A Brief History of Resilience 31

2 Re-Imagining Resilience: New Concepts and Connections 45

3 The Experience of Threat and Dementia 61

4 Holding on to a Sense of Self 73

5 Protective Factors in Action 83

6 Locating Resilience in Everyday Stories 105

7 Practice Tensions in the Search for Resilience 127

8 Realising Resilience: Practice Scenarios 143

9 The Road to Resilience: Where to from Here? 159

Glossary 169

Bibliography 173

Subject Index 183

Author Index 190

Editorial Reviews

Stories of resilience in living with dementia are stories for us all. This practical, insightful and well-researched book brings this important concept to life and offers creative solutions to everyday situations. A topical and highly important book.

Professor John Keady

At a time of significant upheaval within the field of dementia care, this book provides a clearly stated and carefully reasoned framework to guide practice and deepen our understanding of the challenges of living with dementia. A compelling case is made for supporting and building people's resilience through dementia care practice. The author takes a hands-on approach, anchored in the lived experience of people with dementia, whose perspectives and voices are shared throughout. This excellent and accessible book will be an invaluable resource to dementia practitioners, students of health and social care and anyone with an interest in enhancing their skills and knowledge in supporting people living with dementia.

Dr Richard Ward