Counseling the Alzheimers Caregiver

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Author: Mary Mittelman, Cynthia Epstein, Alicia Pierzchala

An outstanding American Medical Association guide for counseling Alzheimer’s families. Counseling the Alzheimer’s Caregiver is full of effective strategies and vignettes to help families meet the daily and long term challenges of caring for someone with AD at every stage.

This resource provides clinically proven strategies to help caregivers deal with the enormous physical and emotional stress of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. Drawing on lessons learned from fifteen years of empirical clinical treatment intervention, this manual is an invaluable resource for physicians and healthcare professionals who work with families caring for an AD patient.

The book discusses intervention plans for managing behavioral and psychological challenges; maintaining the caregiver’s own well-being; support services for patients living at home; guidance on making the decision to place the patient in a residential facility; and more.

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