Prognosis of patients with dementia after admission to a Dutch nursing home

Modern medicine is focused on diagnosing and treating diseases in order to cure a patient from his disease, to relieve his symptoms, and, in most cases, to increase his life-expectancy. Alas, until now there is no cure for most patients who have dementia. Furthermore, if they suffer from comorbid illness, it is of ten impossible for them to understand the implications of cliagnostie and therapeutic strategies, and the wish of the patient to want or not to want to undergo medical procedures can often not be deduced. Two examples illustrate that these problems can also occur in a Dutch Nursing H... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Dijk, P.Th.M. (Pieter) van
Dokumenttyp: doctoralThesis
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Schlagwörter: The Netherlands / dementia / nursing homes / psychiatry
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29199123
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Link(s) : http://repub.eur.nl/pub/23912

Modern medicine is focused on diagnosing and treating diseases in order to cure a patient from his disease, to relieve his symptoms, and, in most cases, to increase his life-expectancy. Alas, until now there is no cure for most patients who have dementia. Furthermore, if they suffer from comorbid illness, it is of ten impossible for them to understand the implications of cliagnostie and therapeutic strategies, and the wish of the patient to want or not to want to undergo medical procedures can often not be deduced. Two examples illustrate that these problems can also occur in a Dutch Nursing Home.