Outlines the stage-by-stage support provided by the community nursing service for families affected by dementia. Role of the community nursing service in public health; Information on managing cognitive impairment that families need to know; Symptoms of people with dementia; Burden experience by ...
"Currently, we can't cure their dementia, but we know there are things that, if done systematically, can keep people with dementia at home longer," says study leader Betty S. Black, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School o...
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Sponselee will talk about the perspectives of different stakeholders in the Netherlands on challenges during the night for people with dementia and their informal caregivers living at home. Van Tilborg will talk about visual functioning of people with dementia in and around home, possible solutions ...
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Support at Home: Interventions to Enhance Life in Dementia (SHIELD) – evidence, development and evaluation of complex interventions (CSP), and to evaluate the CSP and Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today (RYCT) for people with dementia both separately and together in comparison with usual care; ...
The needs of people with dementia living at home from user, caregiver and professional perspectives: a cross- sectional survey. BMC Health Serv Res. 2013;13:43.Miranda-Castillo C, Woods B, Orrell M (2013) The needs of people with dementia living at home from user, caregiver and ...
Dementia can cause people to lose familiarity with their surroundings, which leads to wandering. This is usually a repeated behavior and can be very dangerous if not dealt with before it becomes a problem. In the home, your loved one could wander into the garage, where dangerous tools are st...
'I want to feel at home': establishing what aspects of environmental design are important to people with dementia nearing the end of life Stillfried, "'I want to feel at home': establishing what aspects of environmental design are important to people with dementia nearing the end of life ....
Assistive Technology for people with dementia living at home is not meeting their care needs. Reasons for this may be due to limited understanding of variation in multiple characteristics of people with dementia including their safety and wandering risks, and how these affect their assistive technology...