About The Book
Covering assessment to plan of care and discharge, Here’s How to Treat Dementia is the only comprehensive field manual speech-language pathologists need while working with individuals with dementia. With this timely resource, therapists can readily access the information needed to assess, treat, and document care. Far from a cookbook approach to dementia care, this manual offers valuable information on staging of dementia, goal setting (including documentation), and treatment trends. The authors provide functional tips and intervention strategies that encourage clinicians to utilize critical thinking to formulate personalized care plans specific to a patient’s strengths and weaknesses. This user-friendly manual also includes reproducible forms and handouts for patient/family education, documentation, and data collection.
About The Authors
Jennifer L. Loehr, MA, CCC-SLP, a graduate of Humboldt State University, has been practicing speech pathology since 1989. The focus of her career has always been on geriatrics and she has spent the past ten years working with the dementia population. Ms. Loehr has served as a corporate consultant for several large health care agencies offering advisement and staff training in dementia care. She has presented regularly at the national American Speech-Language-Hearing conferences, as well as various state and local conferences and workshops. She specializes in developing dementia programs that focus on functional goals that will enhance the quality of life for patients, caregivers, and family members. Ms. Loehr currently oversees the rehabilitation department for a large senior living community in Austin, Texas, offering inpatient, outpatient, and home health rehabilitation services.
Megan L. Malone, MA CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and works in home health care, private practice, and also as a clinical instructor at Kent State University. Her areas of expertise include developing functional intervention strategies for both patients living with cognitive impairments and the patients families, as well as training faculty staff and caregivers in effectively understanding and working with the dementia population. Ms. Malone previously worked for nine years as a senior research associate and lead trainer at Myers Research Institute, in Cleveland, Ohio, where she oversaw federally and privately funded grants focused on implementing nonpharmacologic interventions with older adults with dementia. She has spoken numerous times at the annual conventions for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Gerontological Society of America, American Society on Aging, and the Alzheimers Association, along with several state speech and hearing conventions. Ms. Malone has published articles in the Journal of Communication Disorders, Alzheimers Care Quarterly, The Gerontologist, and Dementia.
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