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Author Cowdell, Fiona, author.

Title "That's how we do it ... we treat them all the same" : an exploration of the experiences of patients, lay carers, and health and social care staff of the care received by older people with dementia in acute hospital settings / by Fiona Cowdell.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; chapter one -- literature review; chapter two -- methodology; chapter three -- the commentary; chapter four -- practice development; chapter five -- integrative review; bibliography; index.
Summary The prevalence of dementia is increasing rapidly as the population ages and there is a steady rise in people with dementia being admitted to acute hospitals. Media coverage of the care received by people with dementia in acute hospitals is almost wholly negative. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed description of what the experience, both positive and negative, is really like from the perspectives of patients, lay carers, and health and social care staff, and to propose a model ...
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Subject Dementia -- Patients -- Hospital care -- Evaluation.
Dementia -- Patients.
Hospital care.
Evaluation.
Dementia.
Older people -- Hospital care -- Evaluation.
Older people -- Hospital care.
Alzheimer Disease -- nursing.
Aged.
Nursing Service, Hospital.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Exploration of the experiences of patients, lay carers, and health and social care staff of the care received by older people with dementia in acute hospital settings
Other Form: Print version: Cowdell, Fiona, author. "That's how we do it ... we treat them all the same" 9781443842624 (OCoLC)842292401
ISBN 9781443866637 (electronic book)
1443866636 (electronic book)
9781443842624
1443842621