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 demenetia. This book provides insights into the issues and gaps in quality of hospital care for patients with dementia.
The book will helps practitioners improve the experiences that patients with dementia encounter in acute care settings by offering actual case examples provided by managers of assisted living, emergency rooms, and community geriatric cases; by persons with dementia who live alone; and by other doctors and nurses who care for these patients. These case examples illustrate the challenges faced and suggest strategies for successful and appropriate treatment planning.
This book will be useful for all hospital practitioners who encounter patients with dementia, from administrators, to nurses, social workers, physicians, gerontologists, and psychologists.
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Contributors
Preface
Foreword
by Eric G. Tangalos, MD
Acknowledgments
Introduction
by Nina M. Silverstein and Katie Maslow
Part I: Background and Significance
How Many People With Dementia are Hospitalized? Katie Maslow In Search of Dementia-Friendly Hospitals: A Survey of Patient Care Directors in Massachusetts, Nina M. Silverstein Acute Care for Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding Variations in Hospital Use Rates, Mary W. Carter and Frank W. Porell Part II: Four Perspectives on the Hospital Experience for Persons with Dementia
The Hospital Experience: Perspectives of Assisted Living Providers, Joan Hyde A Geriatric Social Worker’s Perspective on Alzheimer’s Patients in the Emergency Room, Sonia Michelson The Acute Care Experience in the Emergency Department, Mary Pat Mc Kay, Susan Farrell, Khama Ennis, Emily Spilseth Binstadt The In Patient Experience from the Perspective of the Isolated Adult with Alzheimer’s Disease , Charles E. Drebing and Tamara Harden Part III: Promising Approaches Toward Improving Care for Hospitalized Elders with Dementia
Changing Dementia Care in a Hospital System: The Providence Milwaukie Experience, Frances Conedera and Jackie Beckwith A NICHE Delirium Prevention Project for Hospitalized Elders, Patricia F. Guthrie, Susan Schumacher and Germaine Edinger Care of the Patient with Dementia in the Acute Care Setting: The Role of the ACE Unit, Cheryl A. Lehman, Susan Tyler, and Luis Felipe Amador Windows to the Heart: Creating an Acute Care Dementia Unit, Jeffrey N. Nichols Part IV: Strategies for Making a Difference
Try This: Best Practices in Nursing Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia, Cora Zembrzuski, Meredith Wallace, and Marie Boltz Alzheimer’s Association New York City Chapter: Strategies for Improving Hospital Care, Jed A. Levine and Jean Marks Conclusion: Toward a Vision of Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Nina M. Silverstein and Katie Maslow
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