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Dementia With Dignity: Living Well with Alzheimer's or Dementia Using the DAWN Method®
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About Dementia With Dignity: Living Well With Alzheimer's
Product Description The revolutionary how-to guidebook that details ways to make it easier to provide dementia home care for people experiencing Alzheimer’s or dementia. Alzheimer’s home care is possible! Dementia with Dignity explains the groundbreaking new approach: the DAWN Method®, designed so families and caregivers can provide home care. It outlines practical tools and techniques to help your loved one feel happier and more comfortable so that you can postpone the expense of long-term care. In this book you’ll learn: •The basic facts about Alzheimer’s and dementia, plus the skills lost and those not lost; •How to recognize and respond to the emotions caused by Alzheimer’s or dementia, and avoid dementia-related behaviors; •Tools for working with an impaired person’s moods and changing sense of reality; •Home care techniques for dealing with hygiene, safety, nutrition and exercise issues; •A greater understanding and appreciation of what someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia is experiencing, and how your home care can increase home their emotional wellbeing. Wouldn’t dementia home care be easier if you could get on the same page as your loved one? When we understand what someone experiencing Alzheimer’s or dementia is going through, we can truly help them enjoy more peace and security at home. This book will help you recognize the cognitive skills we lose to dementia, and understand the emotions we experience when we lose skills we've been using our entire lives. The good news about dementia is that home care is possible. There are infinitely more happy times and experiences to be shared together. Be a part of caring for, honoring, and upholding the life of someone you love by helping them experience Alzheimer’s or dementia with dignity. Judy Cornish is the author of The Dementia Handbook—How to Provide Dementia Care at Home, founder of the Dementia & Alzheimer’s Wellbeing Network® (DAWN), and creator of the DAWN Method. She is also a geriatric care manager and elder law attorney, member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and the American Society on Aging (ASA). Review Ed Shoemaker - husband, father, family caregiver (eight years and not counting) "Caregiving was not what I thought I'd do with the last years of my life, but God had other plans. And although life didn't give me the skills or understanding to respond to my wife's new needs, warehousing her in a nursing home was not an option. If you have family members experiencing dementia or providing care, the most loving thing you can do is send them this book." From the Back Cover Those with dementia or Alzheimer's interact with the environment and perceive reality differently. Wouldn't caregiving be easier if you could get on the same page as your loved one? Judy Cornish, founder of the Dementia & Alzheimer's Wellbeing Network® (DAWN), can help. Dementia with Dignity outlines the DAWN method, which provides the tools you need to keep your loved one with dementia at home for longer and with less stress. These techniques will help you put off the heartache, stress, and financial devastation that come with long-term care facilities and cost-prohibitive medications. Instead of focusing on dementia-related behaviors, the DAWN method equips families and caregivers with tools for responding to the emotional needs that cause them. Its simple techniques enable caretakers to support the skills their loved ones retain so they can regain a sense of security and wellbeing. About the Author Creator and Author Judy CornishJudy Cornish is an attorney licensed in Idaho and Oregon and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Cornish worked in vocational rehabilitation with people who have brain injuries and as a Qualified Mental Health Associate with the mentally ill. With her background in traumatic brain injury, mental illness, elder law and disability law, Ms. Cornish brings a disti
