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"I was worried coming in because I don't really know why it was arranged"
— the subjective experience of new patients and their primary caregivers attending a memory clinic | | Author(s) | Suzanne M Cahill, Matthew Gibb, Irene Bruce |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 7, no 2, May 2008 |
| Pages | pp 175-190 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Attitude ; Cognitive impairment ; Memory disorders ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Qualitative Studies ; Ireland. |
| Annotation | Whilst memory clinics are fast becoming an evolving feature of geriatric services in the western world, little is known from a user's perspective about the expectations and experiences of people with memory problems referred to a memory clinic for the first time, or about the attitudes and concerns of their family caregivers. This article reports quantitative and qualitative data emerging from a study of 28 patients with dementia and their family caregivers who attended a first appointment at a National Memory Clinic in Ireland. Data show that despite initially feeling unnerved by the clinic appointment, immediately afterwards most of the patients felt content with the assessment process, were satisfied with the explanations and information received, felt the appointment had benefited them, and by the end of the visit felt more positive than negative about their experience. A large number of patients who responded to a question about feedback requested that this information be given to them in writing as well as orally. Some recommendations are made about small procedural changes which can be made to help to demystify the memory clinic experience. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080702206 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: DP: E4: EH: L6G: 3DP: 763 |
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