The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias

by Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins

Overview

With over 3.5 million copies sold, the bestselling guide to understanding and caring for people with dementia is now completely revised and updated!

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer's, and other dementias, the book is widely known for its authoritativeness and compassionate approach to care. Featuring everything from the causes of dementia to managing its early stages to advice on caring for those in the later stages of the disease, it is widely considered to be the most detailed and trusted book available.

Highlighting useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of dementia, this new edition has been completely updated. It features

• brand-new content on everything from home care aides to useful apps to promising preventative techniques and therapies
• practical advice for avoiding caregiver burnout—plus tips for when and how to get additional help
• a completely new two-column design that allows readers to quickly access what they need

The central idea underlying this indispensable book—that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them—remains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421441719
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	08/10/2021
Series:	A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Edition description:	seventh edition
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	9,374
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nancy L. Mace, MA, is retired. She was a consultant to and member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is professor emeritus in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The author of Is It Alzheimer's? 101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia, he was the founding director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry and the first holder of the Richman Family Professorship in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1. Dementia
2. Getting Medical Help for the Person Who Has Dementia
3. Characteristic Behavioral Symptoms in People Who Have Dementia
4. Problems in Independent Living
5. Problems Arising in Daily Care
6. Medical Problems
7. Managing the Behavioral and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia
8. Symptoms Associated with Mood Change and Suspiciousness
9. Special Arrangement If You Become Ill
10. Getting Outside Help
11. You and the Person Who Has Dementia
12. How Caring for a Person Who Has Dementia Affects You
13. Caring for Yourself
14. Financial and Legal Issues
15. Long-Term Care Arrangements
16. Preventing and Delaying Cognitive Decline
17. Brain Disorders and the Causes of Dementia
18. Research in Dementia
Index

Editorial Reviews

We yearn for the day when there is no Alzheimer's, no Alzheimer patients, and no Alzheimer caregivers. Until then, there is The 36-Hour Day.

Jeffrey Cummings

An essential guidebook full of detailed, practical, and compassionate advice for those caring for a PWD. The 36-Hour Day continues to serve as the gold-standard care guide for millions of dementia caregivers.

The Gerontologist

This is for carers and families, but equally should be on the reading list for nursing and medical students. Every ward should have a copy as nursing and clinicians can learn so much from this and ensure a high standard of care for these patients.

Nursing Times

Continues to be the 'bible' of recommendation for any caregiver whose family member suffers from dementia.

Bookwatch

Having lived the chapter and verse of The 36-Hour Day for twenty years, I know how this book empowers families with constructive and compassionate advice. This new edition offers definitive testament to the slow destructive force of Alzheimer's disease and how it challenges families caring for loved ones with dementia. It is a must read by all those who serve our aging generation.

Meryl Comer

Thorough and compassionate, offering accessible information and practical advice, The 36-Hour Day is a necessary resource for families living with dementia. Still the gold standard, this book is the trusted reference that families turn to first—and over and over—for guidance and support in caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease.
—Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice

Both a guide and a legend.
—Chicago Tribune

An admirably realistic guide to caring for people with Alzheimer's.
—New York Review of Books

Excellent guidance and clear information of a kind that the family needs . . . The authors offer the realistic advice that sometimes it is better to concede the patient's frailties than to try to do something about them, and that a compassionate sense of humor often helps.
—The New York Times

An excellent book for families who are caring for persons with dementia . . . A book that physicians can confidently recommend to the families of their patients.
—Journal of the American Medical Association

The best guide of its kind.
—Chicago Sun-Times

An excellent, practical manual for families and professionals involved in the care of persons with progressive illnesses . . . The book is specific and thought-provoking, and it will be helpful to anyone even remotely involved with an 'impaired' person . . . Highly recommended, especially for public and nursing libraries.
—Library Journal

Continues to be the 'bible' of recommendation for any caregiver whose family member suffers from dementia.
—Bookwatch

Recommended to all caregivers and families of persons with dementia as an indispensable source of valuable information on a very wide range of topics.
—Case Management Journals

An excellent guide with general information for family caregivers of persons with dementia . . . The text is person focused and describes the complexity and depth of the care required not only for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia but also for caregivers.
—Activities, Adaptation and Aging

This is for carers and families, but equally should be on the reading list for nursing and medical students. Every ward should have a copy as nursing and clinicians can learn so much from this and ensure a high standard of care for these patients.
—Nursing Times

For a reader who wants a book about Alzheimer's and caregiving, this is still the one to buy. Recommended.
—Choice

The 36-Hour Day, 6th edition, serves as an essential guidebook full of detailed, practical, and compassionate advice for those caring for a PWD. This edition, released 36 years after the original, continues to provide relevant, practical, and up-to-date advice to those providing care to an individual with memory loss. The 36-Hour Day continues to serve as the gold-standard care guide for millions of dementia caregivers.
—Kara B. Dassel, PhD, The Gerontologist

We yearn for the day when there is no Alzheimer's, no Alzheimer patients, and no Alzheimer caregivers. Until then, there is The 36-Hour Day.
—Jeffrey Cummings, MD, ScD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Having lived the chapter and verse of The 36-Hour Day for twenty years, I know how this book empowers families with constructive and compassionate advice. This new edition offers definitive testament to the slow destructive force of Alzheimer's disease and how it challenges families caring for loved ones with dementia. It is a must read by all those who serve our aging generation.
—Meryl Comer, author of Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's

From its knowing title to its knows-everything contents, The 36-Hour Day "gets" what you're going through. This encyclopedia of dementia care misses no aspect of life affected, from tough behaviors to challenged relationships to medication decisions  — describing each with both the honesty and compassion we caregivers deeply need.
—Paula Spencer Scott, author of Surviving Alzheimer's: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers

From the Publisher

An excellent book for families who are caring for persons with dementia . . . A book that physicians can confidently recommend to the families of their patients.

Journal of the American Medical Association

Both a guide and a legend.

Chicago Tribune

The best guide of its kind.

Chicago Sun-Times

Recommended to all caregivers and families of persons with dementia as an indispensable source of valuable information on a very wide range of topics.

Case Management Journals

An excellent guide with general information for family caregivers of persons with dementia . . . The text is person focused and describes the complexity and depth of the care required not only for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia but also for caregivers.

Adaptation and Aging Activities

For a reader who wants a book about Alzheimer's and caregiving, this is still the one to buy. Recommended.

Choice

An admirably realistic guide to caring for people with Alzheimer's.

New York Review of Books

Excellent guidance and clear information of a kind that the family needs . . . The authors offer the realistic advice that sometimes it is better to concede the patient's frailties than to try to do something about them, and that a compassionate sense of humor often helps.

The New York Times

Thorough and compassionate, offering accessible information and practical advice, The 36-Hour Day is a necessary resource for families living with dementia. Still the gold standard, this book is the trusted reference that families turn to first—and over and over—for guidance and support in caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease.

Lisa Genova

The 36-Hour Day, 6th edition, serves as an essential guidebook full of detailed, practical, and compassionate advice for those caring for a PWD. This edition, released 36 years after the original, continues to provide relevant, practical, and up-to-date advice to those providing care to an individual with memory loss. The 36-Hour Day continues to serve as the gold-standard care guide for millions of dementia caregivers.

The Gerontologist - Kara B. Dassel

From its knowing title to its knows-everything contents, The 36-Hour Day 'gets' what you're going through. This encyclopedia of dementia care misses no aspect of life affected, from tough behaviors to challenged relationships to medication decisions—describing each with both the honesty and compassion we caregivers deeply need.

Paula Spencer Scott