Caring for cognitively impaired older patients in the general hospital: A qualitative analysis of similarities and differences between a specialist Medical and Mental Health Unit and standard care wards
Background: Around half of people aged over 70 admitted as an emergency to general hospital have dementia, delirium or both. Dissatisfaction is often expressed about the quality of hospital care. A medical and mental health unit was developed to provide best practice care to cognitively impaired o...
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Elsevier
2014
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41077/2/Caring%20for%20cognitively%20impaired%20older%20patients%20in%20the%20general%20hospital%20AAM.pdf