Nursing care in Alzheimer's disease.
The care of patients with AD has had an major impact on the practice of nursing. Nurses are concerned with identifying the special care needs of a dementia patient and developing appropriate nursing interventions to maintain the patient's quality of life. AD is a major challenge for clinical nursing and nursing research because of the degenerative nature of the disease and its subsequent functional impairment.
Wykle
M L
ML
University Center on Aging and Health, Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Cleveland, Ohio.
Morris
D L
DL
D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans