This book gives nursing students a robust foundation for understanding and developing skills to work with people experiencing dementia.

This book is part of the Transforming Nursing Practice series, written specifically to support nursing students on the new degree programme.

As medical advances become more sophisticated, average life expectancies continue to grow. This presents significant challenges to the healthcare system, and caring for older people is now the concern of every nurse. This book aims to help you understand how to care for older people in any care setting. It uniquely focuses on person-centred, humanised care in addition to physical care, helping you to examine attitudes towards older people...

Focusing in particular on compassionate care, this practical textbook covers all aspects of psychology relevant to nursing and healthcare students.

Key features include:

• Coverage of the most important core psychology concepts for students, directly linked to relevant practice contexts.
• Case studies and scenarios from service users, carers, students and practitioners to help readers relate theory to practice.
• Reflective activities to develop critical thinking with outline answers at the end of each chapter.
• A glossary with definitions...