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Dementia reconsidered : the person comes first /

Kitwood, T. M.

Dementia reconsidered : the person comes first / Tom Kitwood. - Buckingham : Open University Press, 1997. - viii, 160p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Rethinking ageing series .

CW017

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

On being a person -- Dementia as a psychiatric category -- How personhood is undermined -- Personhood maintained -- The experiences of dementia -- Improving care: the next step forward -- The caring organization -- Requirements of a caregiver -- The task of cultural transformation.

9780335198559: £15.99 9780335198566: œ45.00 0335198554 0335198562

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Dignity.
Dementia--Patients--Care
Health and Wellbeing.
Social services & welfare, criminology
Care of the elderly
Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
Geriatric medicine

/ .K58 1997

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