Madness and mayhem: the place of people with dementia in a mental health setting |
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Authors: | S Mott |
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Affiliation: | Northern Sydney Area Health Service, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Abstract: | Demographic predictions indicate that there will be between 174,300 and 194,200 people in Australia experiencing dementia of the Alzheimer's type by the year 2006. At present, 60% of those who make up the resident population in nursing homes and aged-care units in psychiatric hospitals suffer from dementia. To explore the place of people with dementia in a mental health setting, a comprehensive review of the literature was undertaken and the results compared with the outcomes of an ethnographic study of a unit for confused older people. |
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