Browsing Dementia by Issue Date
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Destination and dependency of psychogeriatric inpatients at discharge from Nottingham hospitals following the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act
(1996)This study examines the impact of the National Health Service (NHS) and Community Care Act on the discharge of patients from inpatient psychogeriatric wards in Nottingham. All inpatients discharged from five psychogeriatric ... -
Cognitive impairment associated with lamotrigine
(1997)Presents the case of a 69-yr-old woman with a 10-yr history of epilepsy and alcohol-induced dementia, whose epilepsy had been well controlled for 2 yrs with valproate 1,000 mg and lamotrigine 100 mg. She was admitted for ... -
On telling the truth in Alzheimer's disease: A pilot study of current practice and attitudes
(2000)Research suggests there has been a cultural change in the disclosure of diagnosis; most evidence relates to cancer and there is little knowledge of attitudes towards disclosing the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. A ... -
Determinants of satisfaction with care and emotional distress among informal carers of demented and non-demented elderly patients
(2000)Little research has been carried out into determinants of both carer satisfaction in the caregiving role and how these compare with determinants of emotional distress among carers. Principal informal caregivers to 91 ... -
Truth-telling and the diagnosis of dementia
(2000)Discusses the disclosure of the diagnosis of dementia, suggesting that most research on truth-telling in relation to diagnosis is held in the cancer literature. Little is known about the attitudes held and current practice ... -
Evaluating care delivery: The application of dementia care mapping in learning disability residential services
(2001)Explored how good practice in relation to quality of care initiatives in dementia care transpose into learning disability settings. Dementia care mapping (DCM), an evaluation method that measures quality of care from the ... -
To tell or not to tell: On disclosing the diagnosis of dementia
(2002)Research suggests there has been a cultural change in the disclosure of diagnosis with most evidence held in cancer literature. This article reviews how disclosure of diagnosis relates to the field of dementia. Practitioners' ... -
How DCM may affect caregiver mappers
(2002)Dementia Care Mapping had a huge effect on Andrew Neel's perception of his role as a caregiver. In this second of a series of articles on DCM he explores his experiences and how we might reflect on this tool's impact on staff. -
What should we tell people about dementia?
(2003)This article reviews what we should tell patients and carers about dementia. The attitudes and views of patients, carers and peer groups are examined, as is the practice of doctors and other professionals working in dementia ... -
Down's syndrome and dementia
(2004)Down's syndrome is the most common genetic disorder seen in clinical practice: about 94% occurs because of non-disjunction of chromosome 21 and 3-5% because of translocation. Individuals increasingly survive to middle and ... -
Using pre-therapy techniques in dementia care
(2004)Pre-therapy techniques in interpersonal interaction with patients. This technique is used with people with dementia, where the patient leads the direction of the conversations and which is consistent with person-centred ... -
'Is the cooker turned off?' Caring for an older person with falling memory
(2005)Reviews the book, ''Is The Cooker Turned Off?' Caring For An Older Person With Failing Memory," by Josephine and Michael Woolf. The book covers every aspect of caring for someone with dementia, from understanding memory ... -
The meaning of incontinence in dementia care
(2005)Exploring ways of helping dementia sufferers and their carer's cope at home is central to government philosophy and legislation (Department of Health, 2001). The success of such support relies on having an accurate ... -
Caregiver coping in dementing illness--implications for short-term respite care
(2005)The increasing cost of caring for older people with dementia is just one of two key justifications for researching service interventions designed to help sustain dementia sufferers within their own home. Secondly, studies ... -
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The influence of social support on caregiver coping
(2006)Investigations into the act of proving care to a dementing family member typically approach the phenomenon from a stress/burden paradigm. Many studies have sought to highlight the relationship between of a range of dementia ... -
The effectiveness of dementia care mapping in intellectual disability residential services: A follow-up study
(2006)This article is presented as a follow-up to exploratory work published in this journal in 2001. It describes a study that aimed to assess the effectiveness of dementia care mapping in supporting practice improvement in ... -
What does phenomenology offer to the study of care-giving?
(2006)Care giving to a dementia sufferer is complex (Parsons, 1997) and inherently stressful (Baldwin et al 1989). It is suggested that the predominance of the care-giver stressor-burden research paradigm during the last thirty ...