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Rehydration and dementia
— a review of the literature | | Author(s) | Carole Archibald |
| Corporate Author | Dementia Services Development Centre - DSDC, University of Stirling |
| Publisher | Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), Stirling, 2005 |
| Pages | 45 pp (Series for clinicians: Improving clinical and professional knowledge)) |
| Source | Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), The Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA. http://www.dementia.stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Dehydration ; Dementia ; Medical care ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Dehydration can be a difficult clinical diagnosis to make, as the clinical signs are either absent in older people or ambiguous. Even so, some prevalence studies report dehydration in as many as 25% of older people. This review is aimed at nurses and other practitioners working with people with dementia in community settings and care homes. It describes the search strategies used to obtain relevant articles; and discusses the quality and levels of evidence available. The research questions posed are dealt with in turn, referring to the studies on each theme. Whether there are safe options other than acute hospital admission when treating dehydration in people with dementia is discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050607203 B |
| Classmark | CST: EA: LK: 64A |
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