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Inside is a book that lives and breathes in its confinement. It places a brief account of the patients of a hospital assessment ward (catering to those in the process of being diagnosed with dementia) in contrast to the inmates of a broad spectrum of prisons. Holding these strands together is the voice of a single poet who doesn¿t hold back from telling it as it is. In sharply observed and pointed language, the whole carries a message for p...

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Although the medical model has yielded little in the way of advances, that is not true of psychosocial initiatives.This little book tells the hidden story of positive approaches, and those who have devoted their lives to finding alternative creative solutions to one of today's great challenges.

A practical guide to reading and writing poetry with older people living with dementia to improve mental health and wellbeing. Tips and techniques are included for facilitating poetry projects with groups or individuals for professional care workers or personal family members.

In this book John Killick introduces the reader to a key aspect of economic history: the impact of American economic intervention in Europe after World War II. The effects of this impact are still open to debate. The Marshall Plan has traditionally been seen as a decisive turning-point in European economic and political history, but its effect is now being called into question. Would Europe have revived spontaneously after 1945? Did American d...

A thought-provoking and heart-warming book that challenges the assumptions that we are to remain helpless when concerned with dementia, incorporating interviews and opinions from those with the disease and their carers.

Kreativität und Kommunikation fördern und erhalten die Kognition, so könnte die Kurzbotschaft dieses Buches lauten. Noch etwas zu schaffen und zu gestalten, wenn manch anderes nicht mehr gelingt. Anschaulich zeigt das erfahrene und versierte britische Autorenteam, wie wesentlich die Beschäftigung mit kreativen Aktivitäten für Menschen mit Demenz ist, um ihre Kommunikation aufrechtzuerhalten, zu verbessern und ihre Persönlichkeit und Identität ...

A positive and uplifting book establishing playfulness as an essential component of dementia care.

Killick steers clear of any sort of medical terminology and instead nurtures the often neglected aspects of dementia, thereby reinforcing to the reader that these are of no lesser importance.

This book argues that communication is at the heart of all approaches to dementia care, and is an in-depth exploration of ways of establishing and developing communication with people with dementia. It examines both the nature of dementia as a condition and the subjective experience of those affected. The authors consider in detail how communication between people with dementia and those who care for them changes, and how it can be maintained ...

John Killick's autobiography of childhood suffering, petty crime and gambling led to bank robberies, unrequited love, prison brutality and prison escapes (including the plucking of Killick from the exercise yard of a Sydney prison by a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend). This is a love story by a bank robber.-- Emeritus Professor Ian Plimer...I could not put down this book. In this love story, John Killick has shown man's inhumanity to man...

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