Dementia Handbook & Resource Guide 2020 Original pdf

The first in the new Grey House Health & Wellness Guides series, this title is designed to bring together necessary and valuable information for the millions of individuals, family members, and caregivers affected by dementia. For those providing care and support to individuals with dementia, this resource provides easy-to-understand and helpful information about dementia and connects readers to many sources of support.

This comprehensive work comes at a time when a new case of dementia is being diagnosed, worldwide, every three seconds, according to the World Health Organization. Today, about 50 million people suffer from dementia. That number is expected to reach 82 million in 2030 and 152 million by 2050. Dementia Handbook & Resource Guide combines valuable educational information for patients, families, and caregivers. It offers statistics, both nationally and state by state, as well as discussions about treatment and outcomes. In addition, it offers details on 23 different types of dementia and conditions that can cause, or affect, dementia from Aging to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

Following this Publisher’s Note is an excerpt from Dementia Reimagined by Tia Powell, MD, described by Steve Silberman, New York Times bestselling author, as “A brave, sobering, and profoundly humane book about one of the most serious challenges we face both as individuals and as a society.” Dr. Powell’s introduction, reprinted here, is a moving combination of medicine and memoir that addresses the challenges she faced as her grandmother, then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia.