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Psychology

April 2018

What is “Good” Dementia Care?

by Christoph Held

People with dementia experience their condition as a big change in which, for example, new events are not linked to existing experiences and wishes, thoughts, and actions can no longer be connected to each other. This kind of experience of the self, due to the intergative function of the brainbeing temporarily or permanently lost, is called dissociative self-experience. Based on this understanding of dementia, the author develops an approach to effectively understand and support people with dementia in everyday activities. Typical everyday situations and behaviours are presented and reflected on in a practical context.

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March 2021

Right to Dementia

A plea

by Thomas Klie

People are living longer, and people are developing dementia. But our consumer society, which is optimised for working silently, is helpless in the face of those who have gone mad from its midst. The burden of caring for them is borne largely by their dependants and by carers from Eastern Europe. In his extremely stirring book, Professor Thomas Klie argues that we should include people with dementia as part of our lives and recognise that it is possible to live a happy and fulfilled life even with dementia – under the right conditions. Especially in the light of societal conflicts over income distribution fuelled by the corona pandemic, Klie is convinced that the dominant culture is measured by how it treats the subject of dementia.

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Notes for Dementia Support Workers

The Quick Reference Book on Working with People with Dementia

by Sylke Werner

The practical quick reference book for dementia support workers, who inspire, support, and care for people with dementia in their daily lives in their own homes and in residential care. With a clear, specific, and professional approach, Sylke Werner explains the responsibilities that dementia support work entails and the forms and symptoms of dementia. She provides detailed descriptions of activities and ways of life for people with dementia, as well as work on the patient’s life story, care, and activities in the patient’s own home, care homes, and palliative care environments. Challenging behavior, the importance of care workers’ being attentive to their own needs, and legal principles are also covered in this practical handbook for dementia support workers. Target Group: Dementia support workers, geriatric nurses, activity and enrichment specialists, nursing assistants/direct care workers

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In the Dementia Maze

A Graphic Novel

by Albin Zauner

Is it possible to tell in drawings how people with dementia experience, cope with, or fail in their everyday lives? The art therapist Albin Zauner has accomplished this feat. The picture story comprises 84 drawings and is one of the frst graphic novels on the subject of dementia. The focus is not on the medicalpathologizing view of the disease pattern or course, but on the protagonist’s inner world of experience. The existential effects, the loss of spatial and temporal orientation, the memory lapses and the breakdown of speech, permeate the old man’s world of experience in symbolic image sequences.

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Dementia – First Things First.

Texts and Drawings by a Person with Dementia

by Franz Inauen

Franz Inauen was diagnosed with dementia in 2013. Since his diagnosis, he has worked through his fears, experiences, hopes, and anger by writing prose and poetry and by drawing. The result is a work consisting of 85 images and texts. They are accompanied by narratives explaining how the author produced them, an interview with Franz Inauen, and the views of his wife and employer. Target Group: People with dementia, their relatives, nurses, art therapists

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Advise Relatives of People with Dementia

Familycentered Counseling, Information and Accompaniment

by Samuel Vögeli, Nina Wolf

What tasks and burdens do family members of people with dementia bear and what are their needs? This book clarifes basic concepts, competencies, principles, settings, and theories of counseling. It describes the counseling process from contact to assessment to goal setting, action planning, and evaluation. It teaches techniques for relaxation, adapted communication, and stress reduction.

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Nursing & ancillary services

Palliative Care for People with Dementia

by Stephan Kostrzewa

The practice-oriented palliative care manual describes how caregivers can care for, support, and accompany dying people with dementia.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2025

Presence

by Ben Alderson-Day

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2021

Psychopharmacology and Psychopharmacotherapy.A Concise Guide

Training curriculum for medical specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy

by Edited by Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Gerd Laux and Prof. Dr. Walter E. Müller

Psychotropic drugs have established their place in mental illnesses and form an important element of treatment. This textbook guides the selection of pharmacotherapy for a variety of psychological disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or dementia. The reader will learn, - How to use the various drugs in a targeted manner - The mechanisms of action on which they are based - Why side effects occur and how they can be dealt with. This book corresponds to the curriculum for the training of medical specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy. It is an indispensable aid to anyone who uses psychotropic drugs!

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Screaming and Shouting

Challenging Vocalization Behavior in People with Dementia

by Hans-Werner Urselmann, Jürgen Georg

Screaming and shouting is a common and very stressful, challenging behavior of people with dementia. The author provides a clear description of the phenomenon and illustrates its various aspects. He analyzes causes and inflencing factors that evoke or deescalate screaming and shouting and identifes possible interventions and mitigation options for caregivers and relatives.

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2021

Nutritional Practice Elderly People

Concise advisory knowledge

by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich (ed.)

The physiology and living conditions of people change as they grow old, whereas it is often more difficult to adapt eating habits to the new requirements. Psychological aspects come to the fore. The challenge for giving specific nutritional advice is therefore particularly great. This volume in the book series Nutritional Practice provides all the information needed for the competent care of elderly people. It deals with general aspects of nutrition in old age, as well as specific nutritional situations such as poor diet, dehydration, chewing and swallowing problems, dementia, mobility, oral and food hygiene or nutrition at the end of life. A further section is concerned with communal catering.

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2022

Drugs as Micronutrient Robbers

What your doctor and pharmacist ought to tell you

by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters

Many of us have to take drugs on a regular basis. But birth control pills, antibiotics, blood pressure medication, statins, diabetes medication, diuretics, anti-cancer drugs, gastrointestinal remedies or preparations against osteoporosis can all rob the body of essential vitamins and minerals. Often, drug-related micronutrient deficiency is the unrecognized cause of drug side effects. Symptoms such as exhaustion, depression, lack of concentration, irritability, sleep disorders or even dementia can result. Such problems can be prevented. Informed patients can take preventive measures, avoid unwanted side effects and make their drug therapy more effective. This guide explains what to watch out for and how to improve quality of life.

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Eating – Drinking – Digesting

Encouragement, Care and Treatment for People with Severe Disabilities, Illness and in Old Age

by Annette Damag, Helga Schlichting

Eating, drinking, nutrition, and mealtimes play a central role in the daily lives of people with physical and mental disabilities. This publication discusses people with multiple disabilities and cognitive impairments, such as dementia, as well as people in a persistent vegetative state. This practical handbook - identifies problems with eating and drinking among people with severe disabilities and outlines their causes - provides comprehensive, practical guidance on working with people with sensory and motor problems, swallowing difficulties, eructation, nausea and malnourishment - presents posture and positioning aids and techniques to encourage drinking, digestion, basal stimulation, and enteral nutrition - integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from education studies, nursing, and therapy, taking the patient’s life story into account, and discusses working with relatives in drawing up a care plan. Target Group: Practicing nurses, disability support workers, rehabilitation nurses and therapists, basal stimulation trainers, and other health care professionals

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Children's & YA

Explorer Team (1). The Adventure Begins!

by Björn Berenz / Christoph Dittert

Become an explorer! Go with Lias on an exciting mission and solve the puzzles that will lead you to your goal. Eventually you must decide: how will the adventure continue? 3 paths – 3 adventures – which of them is for YOU? Join Lias, Mojo and Cookie on a mission to the Himalayas: together they must find out what has happened to Lias’s father. He disappeared six months ago and the only thing he left behind was his expedition diary, which is full of strange clues and puzzles. The reader will be able to move onto the next stage only if you can decipher them. A great adventure awaits you! And you decide In the end, you must decide: How should the adventure continue for you and the Explorer Team? Hunt with Lias through the forgotten world. Go with Tashi to discover the eternal ice or follow Cookie and Mojo through fire and lava. You will have to choose which of the Explorers you want to accompany on the next adventure.

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by Christoph Held

A plea

by Thomas Klie

The Quick Reference Book on Working with People with Dementia

by Sylke Werner

A Graphic Novel

by Albin Zauner

Texts and Drawings by a Person with Dementia

by Franz Inauen

Family­centered Counseling, Information and Accompaniment

by Samuel Vögeli, Nina Wolf

by Stephan Kostrzewa

by Ben Alderson-Day

Training curriculum for medical specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy

by Edited by Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Gerd Laux and Prof. Dr. Walter E. Müller

Challenging Vocalization Behavior in People with Dementia

by Hans-Werner Urselmann, Jürgen Georg

Concise advisory knowledge

by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich (ed.)

What your doctor and pharmacist ought to tell you

by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters

Encouragement, Care and Treatment for People with Severe Disabilities, Illness and in Old Age

by Annette Damag, Helga Schlichting

by Björn Berenz / Christoph Dittert

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