It has long been recognised that people with dementia and their family carers have palliative care needs equal to those of patients with cancer. However, a palliative approach to dementia care requires both the dementia and palliative care workforces to fully understand the needs of people with dementia and their families towards the end of life. This article describes the development of a ‘community of practice’ where healthcare professionals from dementia and palliative care services shared their practice and learned from each other in a safe and supportive environment.
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By characterising the full spectrum of temporal disease trajectories before dementia, this UK Biobank study aims to yield a global picture of precursor diseases to dementia and to provide detailed instructions for risk management and primary prevention of dementia. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This paper explores the impact that early-stage dementia has on everyday activities from the perspective of people living with dementia, their supporters and occupational therapy practitioners. Open access article - no login required.
This study investigates the experiences of 18 caregivers of people with dementia in Black Caribbean, Black African, and South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) communities in England. Open access article - no login required.
Appropriate nutrition represents a potential strategy to mitigate dementia risk and could be recommended by clinicians as part of mid-life health checks and other health initiatives to reduce dementia prevalence. The purpose of this review is to provide a clinician-focused update on the current state of the knowledge on nutrition and dementia prevention.
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This meta-ethnographic review explains how people with early-onset dementia form their sense of identity. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study tested whether individuals who are most likely to need enhanced care later in the disease course can be identified at the point of diagnosis. Open access article - no login required.
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”.
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751-3(October 2008)4563<br/>PUBM: Print; JID: 9711805; ppublish;<br/>Dades censurades; LOCF; Bias.