Improving Hospital Care for Persons with Dementia,9780826139153

Improving Hospital Care for Persons with Dementia

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780826139153
ISBN10: 0826139159
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher(s): SPRINGER PUB CO INC
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Summary

What happens when a person with dementia is hospitalized? It is usually a fall, a hip fracture, a serious infection, or an acute exacerbation of congestive heart failure, diabetes, or another chronic medical condition that precipitates hospitalization, not the person's dementia. Gain insight into the issues and gaps in quality of hospital care for patients with dementia.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Preface xv
Foreword by Eric G. Tangalos, MD xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction by Nina M. Silverstein & Katie Maslow xxiii
Part I: Background and Significance
1 How Many People with Dementia Are Hospitalized?
3(20)
Katie Maslow
2 In Search of Dementia-Friendly Hospitals: A Survey of Patient Care Directors in Massachusetts
23(12)
Nina M. Silverstein
3 Acute Care for Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer's Disease: Understanding Variations in Hospital Use Rates
35(20)
Mary W. Carter & Frank W. Porell
Part II: Four Perspectives on the Hospital Experience for Persons with Dementia
4 The Hospital Experience: Perspectives of Assisted Living Providers
55(8)
Joan Hyde
5 A Geriatric Social Worker's Perspective on Alzheimer's Patients in the Emergency Room
63(12)
Sonia Michelson
6 The Acute Care Experience in the Emergency Department
75(24)
Mary Pat McKay, Susan Farrell, Khama Ennis, & Emily Spilseth Binstadt
7 The InPatient Experience from the Perspective of the Isolated Adult with Alzheimer's Disease
99(20)
Charles E. Drebing & Tamara Harden
Part Three: Promising Approaches for Improving Care for Hospitalized Elders with Dementia
8 Changing Dementia Care in a Hospital System: The Providence Milwaukie Experience
119(20)
Frances Conedera & Jackie Beckwith
9 A NICHE Delirium Prevention Project for Hospitalized Elders
139(28)
Patricia F. Guthrie, Susan Schumacher, & Germaine Edinger
10 Care of the Patient with Dementia in the Acute Care Setting: The Role of the ACE Unit
167(16)
Cheryl A. Lehman, Susan Tyler, & Luis Felipe Amador
11 Windows to the Heart: Creating an Acute Care Dementia Unit
183(22)
Jeffrey N. Nichols
Part Four: Strategies for Making a Difference
12 Try This: Best Practices in Nursing Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia
205(32)
Cora Zemhrzuski, Meredith Wallace, & Marie Boltz
13 Alzheimer's Association New York City Chapter: Strategies for Improving Hospital Care
237(14)
Jed A. Levine & Jean Marks
Conclusion: Toward a Vision of Dementia-Friendly Hospitals 251(8)
Nina M. Silverstein & Katie Maslow
Index 259

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