Dementia should not halt all life's simple pleasures; AGENDA It knows no social or class barriers and famous names who have fallen victim include Terry Pratchett, Ronald Reagan and Rita Hayworth. But dementia is still not being treated as seriously as it should, says Berni Blackledge.(News) The Birmingham Post (England) (3/15/2008)
...s recent donation for research into dementia got me thinking. How might pounds...people locally, how might families with dementia across the Birmingham area want us to develop services for them? Dementia is a devastating condition that isn...
Dementia care and occupational therapy.(Editorial) British Journal of Occupational Therapy (4/1/2010)
...disease. The number of people with dementia is increasing globally, in line with...Kingdom, it has been established that dementia costs more than cancer, heart disease and stroke put together (Dementia UK 2007). The recent report from...
Reversible dementias.(Invited Article)(Clinical report) Indian Journal of Psychiatry (1/1/2009)
...that the associated dementia is fully reversible...Potentially reversible dementias should be identified...Nevertheless, all dementias are treatable through...progressive degenerative dementia gives patients the...for 18% of all ...
Dementia care all too often neglects 'the person'.(NEWS AND EVENTS) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (9/1/2010)
People with dementia should be treated as people first...second: the person-centred model of dementia care is all too often forgotten. This...on the management of the symptoms of dementia, Graham Stokes. Stokes is head of...
DEMENTIA CARE 'LACKING' REPORT FINDS. States News Service (12/16/2011)
...Psychiatrists want better care for people with dementia in hospital -Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients',- The Guardian has today...newspaper says that the National Audit of Dementia has found that the care dementia patients...
Vascular dementia. (Featured CME Topic: Stroke).(medical research) Southern Medical Journal (4/1/2003)
...brain, large or small, can cause dementia. What is not known is how often this...factors and underlying degenerative dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease. We know that so-called mixed dementia (i.e., combined degenerative...
Dementia clinic in general hospital settings.(Original Article)(Report) Indian Journal of Psychiatry (1/1/2009)
...There is a need to develop specialised dementia care services in developing countries...a general hospital to start a weekly dementia clinic. Results: We were able to support...clinicians and researchers interested in dementia. Conclusion: It is feasible to start...
DEMENTIA STRATEGY LAUNCHES. States News Service (6/1/2010)
...diagnosis and hospital care for people with dementia have been made as part of Scotland's first national dementia strategy. Public Health Minister Shona...group, which brings together people with dementia and those without. The strategy lays...
Dementia beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care.(Book review) Health and Social Work (8/1/2011)
Dementia beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of...recent study regarding the prevalence of dementia, primarily a disease of those 65 and...million Americans age 71 and older have dementia, one in seven of the people in this group...
Dementia in the millennium. MedSurg Nursing (4/1/2002)
Dementia refers to a progressive syndrome of decreasing...Beginning at age 65, the rate of dementia doubles every 5 years (Richards & Hendrie...professionals alike about the relationship between dementia and Alzheimer disease. Dementia is the...
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