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Dementia, disability and contact with formal services
— a comparison of dementia sufferers and non-sufferers in rural and urban settings | | Author(s) | Vanessa Burholt, G Clare Wenger, Anne Scott |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 5, no 6, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp 384-397 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Mental ageing ; Living in the community ; Services ; Psychiatric treatment ; Usage [services] ; Domiciliary services ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Comparison ; Liverpool ; Gwynedd. |
| Annotation | This paper, based on data from studies conducted in Liverpool and Gwynedd relating to people aged 75 years and over living in the community, compares those identified as suffering from cognitive brain disorders with other older people identified as being cognitively unimpaired. It looks at levels of competence with activities of daily living and the subsequent levels of contact with a range of health and social service personnel and other community workers. It shows that although levels of contact with formal services are generally higher for people with dementia than for non-sufferers, most of these differences are below the level of statistical significance. Levels of contact for people receiving most services are low, particularly for specialist mental health services and social work. It is suggested that expanding domiciliary care services for people with dementia and their carers would demand more resources than available, but would be better value for money on a case by case basis. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971117009 A |
| Classmark | E4: EA: D6: K4: I: LP: QLD: N: RL: RK: 48: 84B: 98 |
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