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Adapted from Chapter Four of 'Carers and Caring; The one-stop guide; How to care for older relatives and friends - with tips on managing finances and accessing the right support'.
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Caregivers , Family Relations , Aged , Family , HumansABSTRACT
Care home rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus are too strict and not based on science. This could cost lives, says June Andrews.
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Community Health Nursing , Elder Abuse , Nurse's Role , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Documentation , Humans , Nursing Homes , Risk Assessment , WhistleblowingABSTRACT
The increasing awareness around issues related to dementia, ageing and frailty is welcome, but there are areas of nursing policy that all nurses urgently need to pay attention to.
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Dementia/nursing , Geriatrics/economics , Nurses/supply & distribution , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/standards , Humans , United KingdomSubject(s)
Commerce/economics , Dementia/therapy , Evidence-Based Medicine , Aged , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
As author of Dementia: The One Stop Guide I was pleased to read the positive aspects of the review published in Nursing Older People (27, 5, 10).
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Dementia/nursing , Nurse's Role , Patient Advocacy , Books , HumansABSTRACT
New research shows international dementia prevalence is not rising as quickly as believed, as highlighted in the UK two years ago by professor of public health medicine Carol Brayne.
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Dementia/prevention & control , Dementia/psychology , Dementia/classification , Dementia/epidemiology , Humans , Prevalence , Research , United Kingdom/epidemiologySubject(s)
Psychiatric Nursing/history , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
The number of people with dementia is forecast to double from 800,000 over the next 20 years. Currently, up to half of all patients in acute medical wards are said to be affected by dementia or an associated condition. The latest figures on prevalence in care homes indicate that about 90 per cent of residents have dementia.
