Communication Disability in the Dementias

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This book focuses on language and communication issues with olderpeople with mental health problems. Radically revised andupdated from the authors' earlier book, "CommunicationDisability and the Psychiatry of Old Age", this bookrecognizes that language and communication is not just the businessof speech and language therapy but is relevant to all staffinvolved with people who have mental health difficulties. This book focuses on what older people with mental healthdifficulties require to maintain their independence and to minimizethe effects of degenerative disease processes for as long aspossible from a speech and language perspective. * Relevant to all members of the multidisciplinary team involvedwithin older people's mental health services * Each chapter is evidence-based and factual * Reflects the substantial advances in the diagnosis andtreatment of dementias

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Karen Bryan

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