Madness and mayhem: the place of people with dementia in a mental health setting.
Demographic predictions indicate that there will be between 174,300 and 194,200 people in Australia experiencing dementia of the Alzheimer's type by the year 2006. At present, 60% of those who make up the resident population in nursing homes and aged-care units in psychiatric hospitals suffer from dementia. To explore the place of people with dementia in a mental health setting, a comprehensive review of the literature was undertaken and the results compared with the outcomes of an ethnographic study of a unit for confused older people.
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Northern Sydney Area Health Service, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research