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Promoting continence and managing incontinence with people with dementia living at home — one more challenge for integration
Author(s)	Vari Drennan, Laura Cole
Journal title	Journal of Integrated Care, vol 17, issue 1, 2009
Pages	pp 15-25
Source	http://www.pavpub.com
Keywords	Incontinence ; Dementia ; Management [care] ; Services ; Health services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Case studies.
Annotation	Mental health problems in old age have attracted policy attention in the UK over the past decade. An important issue is how to improve services for people who have both mental health and other problems. This article sets out some of the challenges facing planners and commissioners in developing integrated services for older people, by using the case study of people with dementia and incontinence problems. It uses integrated service models and observations from the EVIDEM-C study to suggest some incremental actions that would develop the long-term strategy for integrated services. The EVIDEM (evidence-based interventions in dementia) programme of research and development (www.evidem.org.uk) has been independently commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) through the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090417220 A
Classmark	CTM: EA: QA: I: L: QAJ: QK6: 69P
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