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- Title
False Information from Your Patients with Dementia Threatens Their Safety.
- Abstract
The article focuses on research by the Alzheimer's Association that found increase in prevalence of dementia with age and physicians fail to recognize dementia in 19-67 percent of patients in the outpatient setting. It offer views of Marcus Escobedo, senior program officer with The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, on incomplete information received by dementia patients as a primary concern and mentions of need of care of older adults.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of dementia; COMMUNICATION; DEMENTIA; HONESTY; MEDICAL screening; PATIENT safety; RISK assessment; BEHAVIOR disorders; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Same-Day Surgery, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 7, p81
- ISSN
0190-5066
- Publication type
Article