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Exploring dementia day care services
— North East and South East Edinburgh | | Author(s) | I B Davidson |
| Corporate Author | Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust; Dementia Services Development Centre - DSDC, University of Stirling |
| Publisher | Dementia Services Development Centre, Stirling, 1997 |
| Pages | 57 pp |
| Source | DSDC, Department of Applied Social Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Day services ; Day centres ; Day hospitals ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys ; Edinburgh. |
| Annotation | This report examines the nature of services provided by dementia day centres and day hospitals - including the role of Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust - and the characteristics of users. The author used the Revised Elderly Persons Disability Scale (REPDS) - for want of a more clinically relevant, dementia-focused rating scale - to evaluate services. The findings included that there is an unequal spread of day centres, which are poorly planned and weakly resourced; by contrast, expensive, centralised and restricted day hospitals provided better access to services, including meeting carers' needs. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970515002 B |
| Classmark | EA: NM: NMC: LDD: QLD: 3F: 9SD |
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