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P2‐048: Management of Alzheimer's disease in the primary care setting: A prospective physician survey
Author(s) -
Baek William S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.1068
Subject(s) - memantine , medicine , medical prescription , neurology , prospective cohort study , disease , dosing , family medicine , primary care , psychiatry , pediatrics , dementia , pharmacology
systematically, imparting the principle to complete the treatment, grasping the ward manager’s status of knowledge in dementia care, expanding the roles of CN, equipping ethical environment, and encouraging IPW. Conclusions: In order to complete these patients’ treatment with dignity and respect, necessity for nursing management skills such as supporting for improving staff’s knowledge and skills of dementia care as well as permeating the principle of completing the treatment of patients’ physical complications systematically were suggested. Further research on the development of dementia care skills in acute settings, and the development and impartment of nursing management system in order to encourage dementia patients’ treatment ethically and humanely are in progress.