Coping with Dementia
Written by Laura Town and Karen Hoffman
Narrated by Sam Clapp
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About this audiobook
- Cope with a diagnosis of dementia and prepare emotionally for the changes that will follow.
- Avoid caregiver burnout with strategies for maintaining emotional health.
- Identify risk factors and prevent or treat anxiety, depression, stress, anger, frustration, guilt, and other emotional effects of caregiving
- Effectively communicate with loved ones who have dementia.
- Tailor your caregiving strategies to your loved ones emotional needs.
If you have been diagnosed with dementia or are providing care to someone with dementia, you are not alone, although you often may feel that way when confronting this terrible illness. Don’t give up hope. Use the checklists in Coping with Dementia to protect yourself from the emotional effects of dealing with dementia and maintain your personal well-being in spite of everything.
Laura Town
Laura Town is an experienced author and editor who has contributed to many books for the academic, professional, and lay populations. Laura has written on a variety of topics of special interest to the aging population. She has expertise in the field of finance, and she has contributed to several online nursing courses and texts. Her work has been published by John Wiley and Sons and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and she has also written for the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). As an editor, Laura has worked with Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, John Wiley and Sons, and the University of Pennsylvania.Laura is the founder and president of WilliamsTown Communications, a company that creates educational courses and texts for publishers, universities, and non-profits. She is also the past president of the Indiana chapter of AMWA.
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