Enabling hospital staff to care for people with dementia

Nursing Older People

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 29-32

  Bray, Jennifer ^a   Evans, Simon ^a   Bruce, Mary ^a   Carter, Christine ^a   Brooker, Dawn ^a   Milosevic, Sarah ^a   Thompson, Rachel ^b   Woods, Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Dementia ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute hospitals; Dementia; Development programme; Pain assessment tools; Staff training

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DEMENTIA; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NURSING; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

AWARENESS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84953399316     PISSN: 14720795     EISSN: 20478941     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.7748/nop.27.10.29.s21     Document Type: Article

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