Contents
Section 1
Approaches to Practice
1 Constructing dementia
Trevor Adams and Ruth Bartlett
2 Valuing people with dementia
Helen Bartlett and Wendy Martin
3 Policy and practice in dementia care
Jill Manthorpe and Trevor Adams

Person centred practice
4 Working with people in the early stages of dementia
Lindsay Rowan
5 Managing language and communication difficulties in Alzeimera€™s
dementia: the link to behaviour
Karen Bryan and Jane Maxim
6 Counselling people with dementia
Elizabeth Bartlett and Richard Cheston
7 Addressing the physical care needs of people with dementia
Roger Watson
8 Caring for people with dementia
Kay de Vries
9 Remebering and forgetting: Group work with people who have
dementia
Richard Cheston, Kerry Jones and Jane Gilliard
10 Positive communication with people who have dementia
Jonathan Parker
11 Working with young people with dementia
Maria Parsons
Practice systems
12 Helping families cope with dementia Alison Marriott
13 Developing ethnically sensitive and appropriate dementia care
practice
Anthea Innes
14 Supporting and supervising in dementia care Mark Holman
15 Elder abuse and people with dementia
Bridget Pendale
16 Maintaining quality in dementia care practice Dawn Brooker