Tell me what to expect at each stage of dementia, and how to deal with it, Mary Jordans clients frequently ask her. The advice she gives, one-to-one while working for a national dementia charity and in the workshops she runs for carers, forms the basis of this practical guide. In the Essential Carers Guide to Dementia, Mary explains what you can expect when you receive a diagnosis of one of the many causes of dementia and what you can do to manage life going forward how you can slow the progress of symptoms and how you can maximise available support. The earlier you start, the better you will be able to cope.
Mary Jordan’s unique insight into the care of dementia stems from her first-hand experience of caring for friends and relatives with the condition and professionally from her work for a national dementia charity. She has many years of experience working for the National Health Service and in the field of medical publishing. In addition to articles and papers published in medical, nursing and social care journals and general magazines, Mary is also known for her books ‘The Essential Carer’s Guide to Dementia’, ‘The Fundholder’s Handbook’, the award-winning ‘End of Life, The Essential Guide to Caring’ and ‘The Essential Guide to Avoiding Dementia’.
Do you worry that you have a high risk of getting dementia? Are you already affected? This ground-breaking book brings together information from a wealth of research papers and other sources that gives strong pointers about how changes in diet and lifestyle might reduce the risk or mitigate the consequences of dementia. Currently there is no cure or known cause for dementia, but the book reviews the empirical evidence on causes and connections – much of which is not usually disseminated to the public – so that readers can judge for themselves what might turn out to be true.
Contents
Part I: What we know about the risk factors: Age, personality, social factors; Trauma, physical and mental; Miscellaneous factors; Drugs and medication (to be contributed by Dr J Thompson); Nutritional factors; Part II: Assessing personal risk factors: Past history; Physical status; Lifestyle; Current status; Part III: What you can do: Nutrition; Exercise; Confounding factors to avoid; Sleep, stress and social life; Planning ahead; Resources
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How do you want your dementia to be? The limits of the medical model; Happiness in dementia; Maintaining ourselves in dementia; Dementia as a cognitive disability; Caring in dementia; Improving the emotional experience of dementia; the politics of dementia and the nursing home; Death and dementia; The future of dementia
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What is lipedema; Genetics of lipedema; Differential diagnosis: Lymphedema, Obesity, Common comorbidities; The challenge of weight stigma in recognizing lipedema; Challenges to the primary care physician in addressing lipidema; Imaging; Summary of conservative treatment methodologies; Surgical treatment pathways for lipedema; Alternative supplementary surgical approaches, Self-care strategies; Holistic approach to diagnosis, care and treatment; Resources; A look to the future
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Cancer and exercise – the reasons why; Lifestyle, blame and cancer; Exercise/physical activity/moving/fitness – what do we mean?; Why we need to sit still less; How exercise can help with the impact and side effects of cancer treatment: cancer-related fatigue; Mental and emotional health; Bone density, osteopenia and osteoporosis; Weight loss, weight gain, muscle loss, body fat and hormone treatments; Moving through prostate cancer; Lymphoedema; Lungs and breathing; Exercising with an ostomy; Pelvic floor training for men and women; Exercising after breast reconstruction surgery; Exercising with peripheral neuropathy; When – the different phases of cancer: Straight after diagnosis – ‘prehab’; During treatment; While living with secondary cancer; After (primary) treatment; Towards the end of life; My story; What to do, and how: How to start; Active daily living; The exercise prescription; Design your own training plan; Barriers and how to overcome them; When not to exercise; Do what you love; Nordic walking; Upper body strength; HIIT; Running; Active rest and recovery; When things go wrong; The practical section: Getting going; Getting out of puff; Getting strong; Exercises to improve balance; Full body stretch; Resources (UK and Republic of Ireland); References
