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An evaluation of two models of long-term residential care for elderly people with dementia
- Authors:
- SKEA Derek, LINDESAY James
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(3), March 1996, pp.233-241.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reports the findings of a prospective study of two residential units for elderly people with dementia: a community hospital ward providing an enhanced version of traditional hospital care and a scheme developed in partnership with a charity operating an explicit policy emphasizing resident choice, opportunity, support and independence. Concludes that both units evaluated in this study offer their residents better quality of life than that provided by the mental hospital wards they replace.
A survey of memory clinics in the British Isles
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Neil, LINDESAY James
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(5), 1995, pp.379-385.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the characteristics and activities of 20 memory clinics currently operating in the United Kingdom and Eire. There was broad agreement with regard to aims, objectives and general operating characteristics, but the clinics varied considerably in the number of patients assessed over a given period and the proportion of cases diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in the year prior to the survey.