Non-pharmaceutical approach to managing behavioural disturbances in patients with dementia in a nursing home setting
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Introduction There are approximately 750,000 people in the UK with dementia with many being cared for in a nursing home environment. Dementia patients often exhibit significant mental state disturbances including confusion, agitation and aggression and these may be provoked or exacerbated by many external factors. In this study we hypothesised that optimising the sensory awareness of residents to their environment would be beneficial and reduce the number of documented aggressive episodes [including verbal and physical abuse to staff and other service users].
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