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Living with Dementia

CPD Listening Time:	24 Mins
Conference:	General Aged Care
Date Recorded:	9 Feb 2010
Location:	Victoria, Australia

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Living with Dementia

A nurses account of her experience when her partner developed dementia. The importance of early assessment. Depression and coping with the losses which accompany this organic brain disease.

What is behaviour concept mapping?
How will it help the quality of your care?
Examples include: wandering, calling out, disruptive interactions.

Speaker: Patricia Awty

Nurse Educator and Consultant. Pat’s qualifications include a Master of Health Science and over the years, she has gained substantial clinical experience in mental health and aged care. Pat is very interested in the psychodynamics of therapeutic caring and is well known as an informed and inspiring teacher.

Recorded: 9 Feb 2010
Duration: 23 Mins
Conference: General Aged Care
Session in Conference: 'The lived experience of dementia, Screening People For Dementia and Understanding behavior (Part2)'
State: Victoria, Australia

Professional Reviews:

glennis cole (Tuesday, 28 June 2011)

thank you Patricia for sharing your personal account incorporated with relevant information re early diagnosis of dementia.The need to have a proper diagnosis early to implement treatment and plan for the future is vital to the patient and family,thus giving all some control in an eventual sad situation.