Alzheimer’s and dementia

"I open the garden gate, which creaks on old, worn hinges. The rose garden is peaceful but not silent. Bird song and the buzz of bees provide nature's melody. Somewhere in the distance, gentle music is playing and it relaxes me."

Namaste Care offers compassionate care to people with advanced dementia through sensory input, comfort and pleasure, combining music, therapeutic touch, colour, food and scents. With ready-to-use structured sensory stories that are specially

People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and care staff need, and the methods they can use, when seeking to draw out and validate the views of people with dementia successfully, and discuss the ways in which such views can be included in debates about dementia methodology and polic

Hermien Stellmacher, geboren 1959, wuchs in Amsterdam auf. Im Alter von 15 Jahren zog sie nach Deutschland. Sie illustrierte zahlreiche Kinder- und Jugendbücher. Seit einigen Jahren schreibt sie hauptsächlich für Erwachsene, zum Teil unter dem Pseudonym Fanny Wagner. Wenn sie nicht gerade in der Provence weilt, lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und zwei Katern in einem kleinen Dorf in der Fränkischen Schweiz.