Nicholas Clarke, Farine Clarke, Denzil Edwards

How to Manage Dementia in General Practice (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This practical guide clearly shows each stage in the management of a patient with dementia. It covers the complex issues surrounding dementia such as spouses and families, access to appropriate care, legal and ethical concerns, planning for the future and "living well" and includes the decision making process on initiating treatment and guidance on how best to access the available services.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118352304
• Artikelnr.: 39042250

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Clarke, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, MD in Neurochemistry and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, London, UK Farine Clarke, General Practitioner, Former Deputy Editor of Pulse Newspaper and Editor and Editorial Director of GP newspaper, UK Denzil Edwards, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Kent and Medway NHS Trust, UK

Inhaltsangabe

About the authors
vii GP's Foreword by Dr Neil Arnott
ix Neuroscience Foreword by Professor Paul Francis
xi Acknowledgement
xiv Introduction
1 Chapter 1 Diagnosing dementia in general practice
4 Chapter 2 Complex pictures of dementia
25 Chapter 3 Initiating
monitoring and adjusting dementia treatments
41 Chapter 4 Emergency management of dementia
53 Chapter 5 Managing families
72 Chapter 6 Using the multidisciplinary team
86 Chapter 7 Capacity
consent and deprivation of liberty
100 Chapter 8 Choosing a residential home
115 Chapter 9 Research
developments and media coverage
122 Chapter 10 GP questions answered
133 Appendix Recommended further reading
142 Index
145