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S/N/241. Age of Equality: literature review on Dementia care

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2009
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The paper offers a review of literature on the challenges and practices of Dementia care in elderly citizens investigating the implications of ageism for health care practices. Societal stigmas associated with old age ailments are explored and compared to the attitudes of health professionals highlighting legal and ethical aspects of dementia care, the need of nurses' education and training, the importance of nurse-client communication, the models of dementia care, etc. The effects of stigma on individual clients with dementia are explored, the weaknesses in current practices are indicated considering the ways to provide optimal mental health nursing.

 

KEYWORDS: n, age, equality, literature, review, dementia, care,

 
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