Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants or Complete Guide to Alzheimers Proofing Your Home

Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants

Author: Bradford Angier

From amaranth to yucca, complete information for identifying over a hundred native plants and their traditional medicinal uses.

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Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home

Author: Mark L Warner

Written by a practicing architect and gerontologist, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home shows you how to create a home environment that will help you cope with the many difficulties associated with Alzheimer's. This unique book is divided into two sections to provide the most thorough coverage available. Section One deals with interior and exterior spaces individually, providing key information on how to ensure that the Alzheimer's patient will be safe and secure. Section Two gives a detailed list of potential problems related to Alzheimer's and practical information on how to cope with those problems in the home setting.

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Warner, an architect and gerontologist, illustrates how to create a home environment that helps caretakers cope with the problems evolving around space associated with Alzheimer's and related dementia. Chapters focus on issues such as safety in the kitchen, outdoor environments, wandering, incontinence, and access limitation. Specific products are described and manufacturers are listed to make locating a particular product simple. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: About Alzheimer's Disease	1
Ch. 1	Preparing Your Home	9
Ch. 2	Thinking-Related Issues	83
Ch. 3	Behavioral Problems	129
Ch. 4	Activities of Daily Living	159
Ch. 5	Wandering	199
Ch. 6	Access Denial	251
Ch. 7	Incontinence	279
Ch. 8	Mobility	301
Ch. 9	Safety	355
	Products and Manufacturers	401
	Appendix: Stages of Decline with Alzheimer's Disease	441
	Glossary	444
	Suggested Reading	455
	Index	461