title: Older people with confusion: capacity to consent and the administration of medicines.
abstract: The author examines capacity, consent and other key issues in relation to the administration of medicines to older people with confusion. It suggests there is much that can be done to improve the way in which nursing practice assesses and promotes therapeutic alliances between older people and medicines.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dewing
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003221:Confusion / Q000451:nursing*; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D016743:Mental Competency; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic