Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
Families are fascinating -- Families coping -- Back to basics : communication -- Consequences -- Friends and family: actions and reactions -- Lies, manipulations, and control freakery -- Difficult scenes and destructive relationships -- Resources creating 24 hour best care -- Professionals and carers' pressures, problems and pleasures -- Confidentiality : a very thorny issue -- More assumptions, perceptions, and interpretations -- Constructive professional/carer conversations -- Challenging the behaviour -- Communications in difficult days (decades) -- Actively helping carers cope -- Put on your own mask first.
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Based on interviews with both professionals and families/carers, this book aims to improve communication between both groups in order to provide a greater level of support for the troubled individual at the centre.
Medical personnel-caregiver relationships-- United States.
Nursing home patients-- Family relationships-- United States.