Signpost Book Reviews 

If you would like to become a Signpost book reviewer, please contact Signpost or ring on 029 2033 6073 (UK readers only). Links to pages containing titles awaiting review can be found below.

Books to Review          Published book reviews on this site

Guidelines for Book reviewers

1. The word count is flexible but between 200-700 words would be acceptable.
2. The deadline for the next issue of Signpost is usually 8 weeks before publication date.
3. As a non-profit journal we are unable to offer financial payments, but all contributors are offered a year's free subscription to Signpost with our thanks.
4. Preferably, articles should be submitted both as hard copy and on disk, or by e-mail to Signpost
5. Copies of reviews are sent to the publishers of reviewed books.
6. Reviews are also published on the Signpost website.
7. Once a book has been reviewed, we ask that it be returned for inclusion in our specialist library, as we depend on review copies to keep our specialist library up to date.

Published Book Reviews

1. The Experience of Alzheimer's Disease - Life Through a tangled Veil
2. Burden of Sympathy
3. Health Anxiety : Clinical and Research Perspectives on Hypochondriasis and Related Conditions
4. Keeping in touch With someone who has Alzheimer’s
5. The person not the problem ( video)
6. The Home Front
7. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Older People.
8. Mental Wellness in Ageing -- Strengths-Based Approaches.
9. Making a Difference in Dementia Care Training – Resources that are effective meaningful and fun!
10. Group Activities with Older Adults
11. Training Manual for Working with Older People in Residential and Day Care Settings.
12. Ageing in a changing society (second edition)
13. Feeding and swallowing disorders in dementia.
14. All That Paraphernalia
15. Art Works in Mental Health
16. The Burden Of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness
17. Changing Services For Older People: The Neighbourhood Support Units Innovation
18. The Forgetting. Understanding Alzheimer’s: a biography of a disease

19. Dementia Care Mapping - Experience And Insights Into Practice

20. Community Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care

21. Ageing, Spirituallity, and Well-being

22. In a Strange Land....People with Dementia and the Local Church

23. Meaningful making - a practice guide for occupational therapists

24. Dementia and social inclusion

25. Designing interiors for people with dementia

26. The essential dementia care handbook

27. Creating successful dementia care settings Vol 1 Understanding the environment through aging senses.

28. Creating successful dementia care settings Vol 2 Maximising cognitive and functional abilities

29. Creating successful dementia care settings Vol 3 Minimising disruptive behaviours

30. Creating successful dementia care settings Vol 4 Enhancing identity and sense of home

31. Caring for the person with failing memory - is the cooker turned off?

32. The Perspectives of People with Dementia

33. Epilepsy and Dementia in Older people

34. People with Dementia in Acute Hospital Settings

35. Health and Well-Being for Older People

36. Dancing with Dementia

37. Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease

38. Activities and Reminiscence

39. New Culture of Therapeutic Activity with Older People

40. The Simplicity of Dementia - A guide for family and carers

41. Reducing stress-related behaviours in people with dementia. Care-based therapy.

42. Captured Memories – A photography project in a drop-in centre.

43. Sexuality and Dementia A guide for all staff working with people with dementia

44. Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life

45. Vital Connections in long term care

46. The Futures of Old Age

47. Communication Activities with Adults

48. Ethnicity and the Dementias

49. The man who lost his language - a case of Aphasia

50. Listen to what I am saying

51. Ethical issues in Dementia Care: making difficult decisions

52. Caring for Kathleen: A sister’s story about Down Syndrome and dementia

53. Making Sense of Spirituality in Nursing and Health Care Practice: an interactive approach.

54. Ancient Mysteries:  Stories from the Trebus Project

55. Depression in Later Life