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Alzheimer's disease can have a cruel effect on sufferers, but carers need support in looking after a sufferer, and recognition of their needs. Alzheimer's disease affects up to an estimated half a million UK residents, and around 154,000 more people are expected to develop dementia in the next 30 years. Informal carers only get almost 6% of Alzheimer's disease care expenditure, which exceeded 1 billion pounds sterling in the year 1990-91, it is estimated. Carers can feel guilty, angry, frustrated, lonely and cheated in looking after a sufferer. The support provided by the Alzheimer's Disease Society, and Axis, a service for carers in Huddersfield, UK, are also discussed.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1993
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Nursing an identity crisis
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Nursing a patient with Alzheimer's disease is difficult but an attempt to empathize may improve conditions, both for the patient and for everybody else on the ward. Empathy will involve studying the patient's behaviour and attempts to communicate, and considering what may have triggered these behaviours. Understanding may lead to reassurance, or to some other form of intervention, and to the reduction of patient distress. Use of special communication techniques, including the one known by its acronym FOCUSED, may be helpful.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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'One in three of us will end our lives with dementia'
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The article discusses the delay in the funding by NICE for diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, which is going to engulf at least one out of three individuals.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2007
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