Dr. Melissa Batchelor, a nurse/ nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in geriatrics and long-term care and her research is focused on improving mealtimes in dementia by teaching caregivers to use different handfeeding techniques.

This book is written for anyone caring for a person living with Alzheimer's Disease or a related dementia struggling to find ways to help the person eat more food. Alzheimer's disease impacts a person's sensory abilities and this book will help you understand how those changes impact their ability to feed themselves.

Links to her related podcasts episodes that explain content within the eBook further are provided for free as additional learning resources, in addition to the handouts discussed in the dementia handfeeding course.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Brain Changes in Dementia
• Chapter 2: Sensory Changes and the Importance of Cueing
• Chapter 3: Three Handfeeding Techniques
• Chapter 4: Meal Time Behaviors and Your Bag of Tricks
• Additional Materials: Checklists