Dementia clinic in general hospital settings

BACKGROUND: There is a need to develop specialised dementia care services in developing countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used the existing infrastructure of a general hospital to start a weekly dementia clinic. RESULTS: We were able to support home-based care, even in patients with advanced dise...

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Autores principales: Shaji, K. S., Iype, Thomas, Praveenlal, K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.44904
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author Shaji, K. S.
Iype, Thomas
Praveenlal, K.
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description BACKGROUND: There is a need to develop specialised dementia care services in developing countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used the existing infrastructure of a general hospital to start a weekly dementia clinic. RESULTS: We were able to support home-based care, even in patients with advanced disease. This new service gave us opportunity to train clinicians and researchers interested in dementia. CONCLUSION: It is feasible to start weekly dementia clinics using existing infrastructure in developing countries. Networking of such centres can generate a database capable of guiding service development.
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spelling pubmed-27384012009-09-08 Dementia clinic in general hospital settings Shaji, K. S. Iype, Thomas Praveenlal, K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article BACKGROUND: There is a need to develop specialised dementia care services in developing countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used the existing infrastructure of a general hospital to start a weekly dementia clinic. RESULTS: We were able to support home-based care, even in patients with advanced disease. This new service gave us opportunity to train clinicians and researchers interested in dementia. CONCLUSION: It is feasible to start weekly dementia clinics using existing infrastructure in developing countries. Networking of such centres can generate a database capable of guiding service development. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2738401/ /pubmed/19742191 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.44904 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dementia clinic in general hospital settings
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