Diabetes and hypertension

Keeping well with dementia: supporting the person with dementia to function to capacity

Promoting self-management in lymphoedema: the role of the community nurse

While not all nurses are lymphoedema specialists, they can still play a part in helping patients understand the complexities associated with lymphoedema by accessing up-to-date training and resources,...

Self-management of long-term conditions: a district nursing perspective of patient engagement

According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a long-term condition is one that lasts for over one year and significantly impacts a person's life (NICE, 2016a). Long-term...

Supporting distress behaviours in people with dementia in the community

Stress is a naturally occurring adaptation reaction in human beings in response to internal or external threats to homeostasis (Lecic-Tosevski et al, 2011). People with dementia, as with any person,...

Dementia, comorbidity and multimorbidity

Research has shown that, in addition to their dementia diagnosis, 61% of people living with dementia have at least three other comorbid conditions (Timmons et al, 2016). The terms comorbidity and...

Risk and dementia

Box 1 looks at the case of Henry, and his wife Gail. In Henry's situation, it is clearly demonstrated that by minimising a risk in one area (in this case, it is his risk of falling when walking...

Community support for families affected by dementia

David was 70 years of age when he first started to notice problems with his memory. Initially, this was just forgetting appointments, and occasionally struggling to find the right words, but over time...

Hope and dementia

Hope is a very personal construct, meaning different things for different people, and it is likely to change over the course of time. We are all able to think of things which give us hope when things...

The power of a cup of tea: psychosocial interventions in dementia

In her book, Mitchell (2022) talks about her relationship with, and the importance of, a cup of tea while living with dementia:.

Dementia and communication

Dementia, what ever the subtype, is caused by underlying disease processes and damage to the nerve cells in the brain. This damage impairs our executive function - the processes in our brains which...

Caring for a person living with dementia: identifying and assessing a carer's needs

Lewis and colleagues (2014) estimated that there are in excess of 700 000 unpaid carers supporting people living with dementia. They went on to suggest that if the ratio of unpaid carers to people...