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Caring for a Loved One with Dementia

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If you’re caring for a loved one with dementia, you know firsthand the challenge of providing care while maintaining your own well-being. Caring for a Loved One with Dementia offers a compassionate and effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) guide to help you reduce stress, stay balanced, and bring ease into your interactions with the person with dementia.

In this book, you’ll learn how to approach caring with calm, centered presence; respond to your loved one with compassion; and maintain authentic communication, even in the absence of words. Most importantly, you’ll discover ways to manage the grief, anger, depression, and other emotions often associated with dementia care, so you can find strength and meaning in each moment you spend with your loved one.

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Marguerite Manteau Rao, MS, MBA, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in bringing new, innovative solutions to the field of dementia care. Marguerite’s dementia advocacy work is inspired by her experience as a long-distance caregiver for her mother, and thousands of encounters with persons with dementia and their family members. She is the CEO of the Presence Care Project, and the founder of the Mindfulness-Based Dementia Care (MBDC) program, first incubated at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also the co-founder of Neurocern, a software company aimed at empowering dementia caregivers with neuroscience-based, person-centered care solutions. Marguerite is a Huffington Post contributor.

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