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Dementia Nursing
Prelims - Dementia Nursing
Prelims:
Dedication, The cover,
Foreword, Preface,
About the Authors,
Introduction and Contents
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History and Issues
This chapter focuses on the history of aged care. It explores its problems and benefits and suggests ways of improving the aged care system. With diagrams and sub-headings this chapter is accessible and easy to understand...
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The Relatives’ Perspective
This chapter explores some of the common issues faced by aged persons and their relatives. It provides information for nurses providing empathetic care for family members faced with the responsibility of admitting their relative to an aged care facility..
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The Whole Person
Dementia is one of the major health problems of our ageing society. It is the nightmare the elderly pray to avoid. This chapter sets forth a holistic model for exploring the complexities of dementia...
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Enriching the Environment
The chapter discusses the current state of practices and how practice can be transformed, how environments can be enriched, and how meaning can be restored to the lives of people with dementia...
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Memory Loss
Memory function involves the ability to perceive something, register this perception, encode and store the memory, and retrieve this information at a later date. This chapter discusses memory loss; its causes, assessment, treatment and more...
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Nutrition (relating to dementia)
Eating and Nutrition can be a source of stress to people with dementia and those who care for them. This chapter considers the factors that play a part in this problem and suggests some practical approaches to alleviating the difficulties...
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Wandering
For health-care professionals working in long-term care, the question of how to deal with frail people who wander is a constant challenge. In this chapter, learn more wandering including its types, causes and how it can be effectively managed...
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Sensory Loss
Dementia affects the ability of people both to understand language and to express themselves verbally and non-verbally. In this chapter learn more about sensory loss in dementia patients; its causes, detection and management...
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Communication
Effective communication plays a crucial role in all care giving, especially in the provision of care to people with dementia. This chapter presents strategies which will assist nurses to communicate better, especially with dementia patients...
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Restraint (in regard to dementia)
The use of restraint is a contentious and emotive issue. The premise of this chapter is that the effects of restraint should largely be seen as adverse. It also addresses what is meant by restraint, why it is used, and the people who are restrained...
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Quality Use of Medicines
This chapter focuses on the meaning of the term ‘quality use of medicines’ (QUM) in the care of people with dementia. It explores some of the factors that influence clinical decision-making and some of the challenges to QUM...
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Incontinence
This chapter addresses the complex issue of incontinence and dementia and informs nurses about the different types of incontinence and how they can be managed, assessed and treated...
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Falls Prevention (in regard to dementia)
This chapter describes the range of activities that can be used to reduce falls among elderly suffering dementia and allows nurses to identify an individual's risk, to determine appropriate management strategies and to implemement a tailored program...
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Pain Management
In this chapter, learn more about the experience of pain in older people and how to assess an elderly resident’s pain and manage it effectively...
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Depression
This chapter aids nurses to assess and diagnose depression in their patients in association with other team and family members, as well as assist in the implementation of relevant management strategies...
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Aggression
Aggressive behaviour often occurs in association with dementia. This chapter addresses aggression and allows readers to understand people who are supposed to be ‘aggressive’, assess their behaviour and attempt to avoid and manage it...
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Pressure Sores and Wounds
A multidisciplinary approach to pressure care and wound management is essential in dementia patients. Pressure wounds are the most preventable chronic wounds in clinical practice and their impact can be significantly reduced by preventative measures...
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Palliative Care
This chapter details the benefits of offering palliative care to people dying with dementia - benefits that are shared by residents, staff, families and the whole nursing home community. It addresses common concerns...
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Intimacy
This chapter discusses a ‘person-centred’ approach to care and nurses are encouraged to recognise moments of intimacy which can enliven the days of people with dementia, and also their own...
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