patient's survival or comfort.1 In addition, research shows most family members who consent to tube feeding for a loved one with advanced dementia come to regret their decision.2 Your fictional patient in Room 140 will most likely die, with or without a tube, in an environment lacking the ...
2. Conceptual Framework We assume a surrogate decision maker (Black et al. 2009) chooses the care plan for each patient with cognitive impairment.i The decision maker chooses her own consumption and the patient‟s care plan, and is also the provider of any informal care. We allow altruism...
Studies using the Patient Priorities Care (PPC) approach have demonstrated feasibility and effectiveness of PPC in different clinical settings. Physical, emotional, and cognitive impairments related to dementia interfere with disease self-management. Care partners, therefore, play an essential role in the...
PurposeMost health outcome measures for chronic diseases do not incorporate specific health goals of patients and caregivers. To elicit patient-centered goals for dementia care, we conducted a qualitative study using focus groups of people with early-stage dementia and dementia caregivers.MethodsWe condu...
Background: The present study is the first to analyze primary data about the use of antipsychotic drugs among community dwelling people with dementia in German primary care. Objectives: To determine (1) prevalence of antipsychotic drug treatment in German primary care patients who screened positive ...
The need for better end-of-life care for people with dementia has been acknowledged. Existing literature suggests that people dying with dementia have less access to palliative care, yet little is known about the care provided to people with dementia at the end of life. This study aimed to ...
Dementia Care: Patient, Family, and Community Edited by Nancy L. Mace. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. 400 pp. $34.50 hardback This article presents information on the book "Dementia Care: Patient, Family, and Community," edited by Nancy L. Mace. The focus of the ...
Hydration for Impaired Cognitive Ability Impaired cognitive ability is everything from dementia to learning disabilities to certain behavioral disorders; anything that may cause a patient to need help in daily living. Maintaining adequate hydration in these patients, particularly older ones, is truly one...
This is as hard on you as it is on the person you love who has dementia. And you need downtime too. Some of these things could help:18 Get organized. Make a list, plan, and prioritize your life so that you schedule in some downtime for yourself too. Set realistic goals and tasks...
In England, the 2019 National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan set out key ambitions for the health service over the next 10 years [9]. The Plan included a focus on enabling older people living with frailty to live independently at home for longer. This was to be achieved via primary...