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Dementia
 
 
 

About Me: A useful tool from Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona. This is a specific document filled out on each patient which details their likes and dislikes, routines, and favorite foods.
 
 
 
 
 
 
What Nursing Assistants Need to Know About Pain - Detecting Discomfort in Dementia- Focus on Behaviors - The Resource Center of the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives - University of Wisconsin Board of Regents 2006

DVD to soothe patients with dementia: Music and Nature scenes. - http://www.cedarlakedvd.com/contact.php
 

The MoCA© is a cognitive screening test designed to assist Health Profession  http://www.mocatest.org/

 
Should Feeding Tubes Always Be Continued in Terminal Illness? Not Necessarily, According to New Guidance from the Catholic Church  - BUTCHER, L (2010) - http://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2010/06170/Should_Feeding_Tubes_Always_Be_Continued_in.14.aspx
 
 
 
 
How to manage behavior disturbances in the older patient with dementia by Judith Neugroschl, MD
from CME Geriatrics: The Brain - http://geriatrics.modernmedicine.com/geriatrics/data/articlestandard/geriatrics/152002/15133/article.pdf

 
 
 
 

Rethinking Dementia  Rethinking the role of feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia
 
Feeding Tubes - Feeding Tubes in Patients with Severe Dementia
 
 
 

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