title: Dementia: a serious and enduring mental illness.
abstract: At the 1997 RCN Congress, the RCN Mental Health and Older People Forum put forward a matter for debate--how the definition of 'serious and enduring mental illness' affects services to people with dementia. Subsequently, the RCN agreed both a position paper, which includes dementia in the definition, and an action plan for dissemination and support of the RCN position. Alison Soliman describes the background to the position paper.
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authors.lastname: Soliman
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom