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Dignity on the ward - improving the experience of acute hospital care for older people with dementia or confusion
— a pocket guide for hospital staff | | Author(s) | Jan Dewing |
| Corporate Author | Help the Aged; Royal College of Nursing - RCN |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 2000 |
| Pages | 13 pp (Dignity on the ward campaign) |
| Source | Help the Aged, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0BE. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Confusion ; Hospital services ; Patients ; Medical care ; Quality of life ; Management [care] ; Guides, guide books. |
| Annotation | This pocket guide has been developed by the Gerontological Nursing Programme of the Royal College of Nursing as part of a project commissioned by the Help the Aged Dignity on the Ward Campaign. It aims to provide an overview of the key issues needed to be considered by multi-disciplinary teams working on acute wards with older people who have dementia or who develop acute confusion (delirium). It outlines, very briefly, diagnostic features and screening for dementia and confusion, and a list of "do's and "dont's". The importance of knowing the person and his or her usual level of functioning is stressed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001215202 P |
| Classmark | EA: EDC: LD: LF: LK: F:59: QA: 69N |
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