Day care, as a type of care in between residential care and home help, has been available for several years, and is often referred to as an adequate alternative form of care for people with dementia. The goals of Swedish day care are to create a meaningful day for participants, offer ...
Australian Institute for Primary Care, Lincoln Centre for Ageing, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Blackwell Publishing AsiaAustralian PsychologistTang J., Ryburn B., Doyle C. & Wells Y. (2011) The psychol- ogy of respite care for people with dementia in Australia. Australian Psychologist 46, 183-...
Expansion of hospice services for persons dying from dementia may be limited by a number of obstacles that require consideration such as difficulties with prognosis, misconceptions by providers and families about the dying process in dementia, reimbursement issues, and regulator...
Care home design for people with dementia: what do people with dementia and their family carers value? Aging Ment Health, in press.Kelly F, Innes A, Dincarsian O. Care home design for people with dementia: what do people with dementia and their family carers value? Aging Ment Health. ...
Five-minute test leads to better care for people with dementia in the primary care setting byAlbert Einstein College of Medicine Credit: CC0 Public Domain The underdiagnosis of dementia, especially among Black and Hispanic patients, is a long-standing challenge in medicine. A new study, ...
My heart breaks for people like the patient with early dementia I met recently. His daughter-in-law—his sole caregiver—requested he be enrolled in home hospice, only to find out that not only did he not qualify for hospice, but that hospice would not provide the hands-on support they ...
Background:A large and growing number of people with dementia are being cared for in long-term care. The empirical literature on the design of environments for people with dementia contains findings that can be helpful in the design of these environments. A schema developed by Marshall in 2001...
The number of people with dementia will rise dramatically over the next 20 years. Currently, one in three people over the age of 65 will die with dementia. A PubMed search using MeSH headings for 'dementia' AND 'palliative care' and for specific areas, i.e. enteral feeding. National repo...
Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve outcomes for people with dementia. The aim of this review is to establish the strength of the evidence and provide decision makers with a clear understanding of what is known about ACP for people living with dementia. Design Evidence ...
A study led by the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London has found that while critical care admissions for people with dementia are going down, they are increasing during the last year of life. The study included people with dementia identified from South London and Maudsley NHS Fo...