Remote monitoring technologies show potential to help health professionals deliver preventative interventions which can avoid hospital admissions and allow patients to remain in a home setting.
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Using a case study approach, the authors describe the support available, spanning health and social care and third sector organisations. They discuss how this support can enable people with dementia and their carers to maintain wellbeing and cope with the impact of dementia.
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Hospital patients with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are vulnerable to a range of adverse outcomes. Hospital-based Special Care Units (SCUs) are secure dementia-enabling environments providing specialised gerontological care. Due to a scarcity of research, their value remains unconfirmed.
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This is an important study that contributes to the evidence-base for a higher incidence rate of dementia among women compared to men, and a pooled higher risk of dementia among women. Other research has attributed increased levels of dementia among post-menopausal women to a potential detrimental neurological effect of lack of oestrogens (Rahman et al, 2020), while androgens are purported to have neuroprotective effects (Cai et al, 2020). However, the inconsistency of effect estimates seen by Gong et al. (2022) across cohorts suggests that, if a difference in dementia risk between men and women truly exists, this may not be fully explained by hormonal or biological factors.
This study explored the participant and caregiver experiences of CS-ADL (Cognitive Stimulation in Activities of Daily Living), an activities of daily living-focused group cognitive stimulation program for individuals with mild-to-moderate dementia. Open access article - no login required
This research examines how close family members consider themselves to contribute to the activities, routines and occupational identity of their elderly relatives with dementia who reside in long-term residential care, and the factors that support or challenge their involvement. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
When investigating health conditions as risk factors for dementia, it is necessary to consider how multiple health conditions cluster and whether the risk of dementia varies between different clusters. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
To explore nurses' experiences of providing support to South Asian (SA) people with dementia and their family carers and to identify barriers and enablers of good transcultural care.
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To explore the moral dimension of family experiences with being involved in the care of their loved one with dementia in the nursing home, using the care ethical framework of Tronto.
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Pharmacological treatments are very common to be used for alleviating neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in dementia. However, decision on drug selection is still a matter of controversy.
Aims: To summarise the comparative efficacy and acceptability of currently available monotherapy drug regimens for reducing NPS in dementia.
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The purpose of this review was to explore the extent and nature of evidence concerning factors that influence the use of nonpharmacological interventions for community-dwelling seniors with mild-to-moderate dementia.
This paper aims to describe the outcomes of the use of the Quality Outcome Measure for individuals with dementia (QOMID) within a dementia pathway for people with Down’s syndrome (DS). The QOMID is a tool for clinicians to use with 17 outcome domains, each with descriptors for early, mid and late stage dementia, rated on a four point scale from rarely achieved for the person (1) to consistently and completely achieved for the person (4). To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Challenges with communication are a feature of all types of dementia, so understanding how dementia affects communication and how to support people is important for all nurses. This article provides an overview of communication in dementia care. The authors draw on the literature on communication and dementia to present evidence-based, practical approaches for supporting person-centred communication with people with dementia.
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Much research has been conducted on the relationship between recovery orientation and people diagnosed with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and mood disorders. A recovery-oriented approach by mental health professionals can reduce hospital stays and medical costs for people diagnosed with mental illness.
There are similarities and differences between recovery-oriented approaches for individuals diagnosed with dementia and those diagnosed with mental illness. This reflects the characteristics of irreversible dementia.
Although dementia courses at recovery colleges are increasing, dementia recovery is in its infancy and course content varies. The core of the recovery framework for individuals diagnosed with dementia is ‘Continue to be me’.
Recovery-oriented approaches and programmes have been developed by mental health workers for older adults, including those with dementia, but there are no outcome measures that reflect the characteristics of dementia care. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Early identification of older adults at higher risk of accumulating multimorbidity of specific pathophysiology and tailored interventions to prevent or delay the onset of such multimorbidity may help prevention of dementia. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The aim of this review was to chart what is known from the literature about the use of CS in improving ADL outcomes. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Dementia is a growing health concern. Persons with dementia experience higher levels of anxiety and depression, which correlates with poorer quality of life, disability and hospitalization. This is one of the few studies to use a longitudinal design to assess the impact of expressed emotion (EE) on well-being in dementia over time.
Music can stimulate the parts of the brain that regulate the pleasure receptors. Music is also neurologically unique in the way that it stimulates various parts of the brain at once. This suggests that in people with dementia if some parts of the brain are affected music can still reach other parts. Evidence suggests that music can have beneficial effects for people with dementia, such as reduction in agitation. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Anticholinergic burden is weakly associated with poorer cognition, but there is little evidence for associations with brain structure. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
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