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Occupational Therapy and Dementia

Promoting Inclusion, Rights and Opportunities for People Living withDementia

ISBN-13: 9781839970627
Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Edited by Fiona Maclean, Edited by Alison Warren, Edited by Elain Hunter, Edited by Lyn Westcott
Price: AUD $103.00
Stock: 18 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 15/12/2022
Format: Paperback (225.00mm X 150.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 382g
Categories: Alzheimer's & dementia [MJND]Occupational therapy [MQT]

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Bringing together professional and lived experience, this collection of expert voices frames dementia practice with an occupational justice lens. It provides a focus for learning and development in practice for occupational therapists and allied health workers working in dementia care, incorporating the voice of people living with dementia.

* Fills a gap in the market in Occupational therapy for dementia care using contemporary theory and occupational justice in working with people with dementia

* More than 55 million people live with dementia making it a diagnosis that health and social care practitioners need to understand

* Variety of well-connected contributors both in the US and the UK with links to the Scottish Dementia Working Group and more

Fiona Maclean is an occupational therapist with over 30 years experience. Fiona has worked and collaborated with people living with dementia. She currently works at Edinburgh Napier University; Dr Alison Warren is an Occupational Therapist with over 30 years experience. A founder member of the Prime Ministers Dementia Challenge Group for Air Transport. She works at the University of Plymouth; Elaine Hunter is an occupational therapist with over 37 years experience in mental health. She currently works with Scottish Government and Alzheimer Scotland. She has personal experience of supporting her mum and dad to live well with dementia; Lyn Westcott is an occupational therapist working in education with over 35 years of experience in the profession. Lyn has co-edited 3 other textbooks and made chapter contributions to 2 further edited texts.

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