A practical book for practical people, Care-Giving in Dementia integrates neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Multi-disciplinary and multi-professional in its approach, it emphasizes the variety of techniques that can be used effectively in caring for persons with dementia.

This book had an interesting beginning, arising from discussions amongst a number of us who presented papers at the 13th International Congress on Gerontology, in New York, July, 1985. We were expressing concerns that there seemed to be a disproportionate amount of funding and publicity for neurobiological research into dementia compared with research about 'care-giving in dementia'. To counterbalance this tendency, we initially undertook to write a joint article about the various approaches to care-giving that we were using individually, and to have it published in a journal. The response was so overwhelming that we had to change to a book format before the original article was ever compiled.