Taming the Chaos of Dementia

A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions That Make a Difference

By Barbara J. Huelat and Sharon T. Pochron, PhD

Taming the Chaos of Dementia supports the journey taken by both the caregiver and the person with dementia providing loved ones with practical recommendations and enriched with human empathy. This book helps ease the stress by offering interventions and nonpharmaceutical therapeutic suggestions. It helps decode dementia’s visceral world and supports noncognitive human experiences. It shares stories of real people struggling to survive the challenges presented by dementia paired with practical examples of interventions that target the miseries of dementia behaviors, triggers, and causalities induced by them. Barbara Huelat explores options in human engagement, the experience of destinations, positive distractions, familiar settings, furnishings, light, color, technology, nature, and the emotion of the senses. She offers design interventions that support the family caregivers in functional and emotional outcomes. No cure exists for dementia, but the tips, tools, strategies and suggestions include here provide tools for caregivers and those with dementia to make the experience more comfortable and calm.

Barbara J. Huelat, FASID, AAHID, EDAC, is recognized all over the US for her work in patient-centered design. She is Design Principal of the interiors firm Healing Design in Alexandria, Virginia, and a past president of the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers. Barbara lectures frequently on a spectrum of healthcare design topics and resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Sharon Pochron is faculty in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She runs an environmental science laboratory and has published many peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from caregiving for dementia to primate behavior. She lives in Stony Brook, New York.

A hopeful and practical guide with practical strategies to mitigate the turbulence of dementia care.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

200 pages

3 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7898 0 eBook

978 1 5381 7899 7

Health & Fitness • Diseases / Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Eldercare 101

A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing, Updated Edition

By Mary Jo Saavedra

The updated and revised toolbox to eldercare.

This important toolbox of critical resources and guidance assists families and eldercare professionals with the navigation of the advanced aging of loved ones and/or clients based on the Six Pillars of Aging Wellbeing. Mary Jo Saavedra adds salient new content that reflects the changing landscape of aging in today’s culturally-shifting, technological, and pandemic world. The book’s online resources have been updated and supplemented with many new tech products on the market that support elders.

Mary Jo Saavedra, MAIS, CMC, CAPS, CSA is a practicing gerontologist and aging life care manager in Portland, Oregon.

Nothing But the Tooth

An Insider’s Guide to Dental Health

By Teresa Yang

A lively and approachable guide to all aspects of dental health.

Nothing But the Tooth is a reference guide that provides current and concise information on all things dental. The book begins with the question of how to choose a competent and ethical dentist and ends with a discussion about technological advances in the dental field. Essential for any dental patient, Nothing But the Tooth will empower you with greater understanding. You’ll gain the ability to ask relevant questions about your treatment. After all, it’s your mouth—and your good health.

Teresa Yang, DDS, has practiced dentistry for over 30 years. Over the years, she has taught clinical dentistry and patient management at UCLA School of Dentistry. She is a member of the Forbes Health Advisory Board. She is also a member of the UCLA School of Dentistry Board of Counselors.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

• 360 pages • 4 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7285 8 eBook 978 1 5381 7286 5

Family & Relationships • Eldercare

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023 • 288 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7365 7 eBook 978 1 5381 7366 4

Health & Fitness • Oral Health